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Building ex ante resilience of disaster-exposed mountain communities: Drawing insights from the Nepal earthquake recovery

Summary

Using the method of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), ICIMOD analyzed data from 30 earthquake-affected mountain communities to identify the combinations of factors that may serve as necessary/sufficient ‘conditions’ for resilient ‘recovery outcomes’. This document here is a journal article about the study which concludes by proposing to policymakers that it is possible to identify appropriate combinations of contextual factors and ex-ante nourish these to build resilience.

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Journal


Publisher:

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction


Published Year:

2017