Local-level governance of risk and resilience in Nepal

Disasters

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 442-467

  Jones, Samantha ^a   Aryal, Komal ^a   Collins, Andrew ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community based disaster risk reduction; Governance; Nepal; Resilience; Risk; Risk and Resilience Committees

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; RESEARCH PROGRAM; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; DISASTER PLANNING; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK MANAGEMENT;

ADULT; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; DISASTER PLANNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK MANAGEMENT;

DHANKUTA; KOSI; NEPAL;

EID: 84879019924     PISSN: 03613666     EISSN: 14677717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/disa.12006     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Agrawal, A. and C.C. Gibson (1999) 'Enchantment and disenchantment: the role of community in natural resource management'. World Development. 27(4). pp. 629-649.
2. Agrawal, A. and J. Ribot (1999) 'Accountability in decentralisation: a framework with South Asian and West African cases'. Journal of Developing Areas. 33(4). pp. 473-502.
3. Allen, K. (2006) 'Community-based disaster preparedness and climate adaptation: local capacity-building in the Philippines'. Disasters. 30(1). pp. 81-101.
4. Aryal, K.R. (2007) Mapping Disaster Vulnerability from Historical Data in Nepal. Disaster and Development Centre, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne .
5. Bajeck, R., Y. Matsuda, and N. Okada (2008) 'Japan's Jishu-bosai-sokshiki community activities: analysis of its role in participatory community disaster risk management'. Natural Hazards. 44(2). pp. 281-292.
6. Batterbury, S.J. and J.L. Fernando (2006) 'Rescaling governance and the impacts of political and environmental decentralisation: an introduction'. World Development. 34(11). pp. 1851-1863.
7. Bhattacharya, A.K. and B. Basnyat (2005) 'Decentralisation and community forestry programmes in Nepal: issues and challenges'. International Forestry Review. 7(2). pp. 147-155.
8. Black, R. and E. Watson (2006) 'Local community, legitimacy and cultural authenticity in postconflict natural resource management: Ethiopia and Mozambique'. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 24(2). pp. 263-282.
9. Blaikie, P., T. Cannon, I. Davis, and B. Wisner (1994) At Risk. First edition. Routledge, London .
10. Chang, S.E. and M. Shinozuka (2004) 'Measuring improvements in the disaster resilience of communities'. Earthquake Spectra. 20(3). pp. 739-755.
11. Chen, L.C., Y.C. Liu, and K.C. Chan (2006) 'Integrated community-based disaster management program in Taiwan: a case study of Shang-An village'. Natural Hazards. 37(1-2). pp. 209-223.
12. Collins, A.E. (2009) Disaster and Development. Routledge, London .
13. Comfort, L. et al. (1999) 'Reframing disaster policy'. Environmental Hazards. 1. pp. 39-44.
14. Coombes, B (2007) 'Defending community? Indigeneity, self determination and institutional ambivalence in the restoration of Lake Whakaki'. Geoforum. 38(1). pp. 60-72.
15. Dasgupta, A. and V.A. Beard (2007) 'Community driven development, collective action and elite capture in Indonesia'. Development and Change. 38(2). pp. 229-249.
16. DFID (Department for International Development) (2006) Reducing the Risk of Disasters - Helping to Achieve Sustainable Poverty Reduction in a Vulnerable World. A DFID Policy Paper. March. DFID, London .
17. Herbert-Cheshire, L. and V. Higgins (2004) 'From risky to responsible: expert knowledge and the governing of community-led rural development'. Journal of Rural Studies. 20(3). pp. 289-302.
18. IFRC (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) (2004) World Disaster Report 2004: Focus on Community Resilience. IFRC, Geneva .
19. IFRC (2009) World Disaster Report 2009: Focus on Early Warning, Early Action. IFRC, Geneva .
20. Jones S.J. (2007) 'Tigers, trees and tharu: an analysis of community forestry in the buffer zone of the Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal'. Geoforum. 38(3). pp. 558-575.
21. King, D. (2008) 'Reducing hazard vulnerability through local government engagement and action'. Natural Hazards. 47(3). pp. 497-508.
22. La Trobe, S. and I. Davis (2005) Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction. Tearfund, Teddington .
23. Lane, M. (2003) 'Decentralization or privatization of environmental governance? Forest conflict and bioregional assessment in Australia'. Journal of Rural Studies. 19(3). pp. 283-294.
24. Larson, A.M. (2003) 'Decentralisation and forest management in Latin America: towards a working model'. Public Administration and Development. 23(3). pp. 211-226.
25. Lebel, L. et al. (2006) 'Governance and the capacity to manage resilience in regional socio-ecological systems'. Ecology and Society. 11(1). http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/issues/view.php?sf=22 (accessed on 11 February 2013).
26. Li, T.M. (1996) 'Images of community: discourse and strategy in property relations'. Development and Change. 27(3). pp. 501-527.
27. Lynam, T., W. de Jong, D. Sheil, T. Kusumanto, and K. Evans (2007) 'A review of tools for incorporating community knowledge, preferences and values into decision-making in natural resource management'. Ecology and Society. 12(1). http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss1/art5/ (accessed on 11 February 2013).
28. Maguire, B. and P. Hagan (2007) 'Disasters and communities: understanding social resilience'. Australian Journal of Emergency Management. 22(2). pp. 16-20.
29. Manyena, B. (2006) 'The concept of resilience revisited'. Disasters. 30(4). pp. 433-450.
30. Marschke, M.J. and F. Berkes (2006) 'Exploring strategies that build livelihood resilience: a case from Cambodia'. Ecology and Society. 11(1). http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss1/art42/ (accessed on 11 February 2013).
31. Martin, A. and M. Lemon (2001) 'Challenges for participatory institutions: the case of village forest committees in Karnataka, South India'. Society and Natural Resources. 14(7). pp. 585-597.
32. Maskrey, A. (1989) Disaster Mitigation: A Community-based Approach. Development Guidelines No. 3. Oxfam, Oxford .
33. Neumann, R.P. (1997) 'Primitive ideas: protected area buffer zones and the politics of land in Africa'. Development and Change. 28(3). pp. 559-582.
34. Paton, D. and D. Johnston (2001) 'Disasters and communities: vulnerability, resilience and preparedness'. Disaster Prevention and Management. 10(4). pp. 270-277.
35. Paton, D. and D. Johnston (eds.) (2006) Disaster Resilience: An Integrated Approach. Charles Thomas Publishers, Springfield, IL .
36. Patterson, O., F. Weil, and K. Patel (2010) 'The role of community in disaster response: conceptual models'. Population Research Policy Review. 29(2). pp. 127-141.
37. Paudel, P.P., H. Omura, T. Kubota, and K. Morita, (2003) 'Landslide damage and disaster management system in Nepal'. Disaster Prevention and Management. 12(5). pp. 413-419.
38. Pelling, M. (1999) 'The political ecology of flood hazard in urban Guyana'. Geoforum. 30(3). pp. 249-261.
39. Pelling, M. (2007) 'Learning from others: the scope and challenges for participatory disaster risk assessment'. Disasters. 31(4). pp. 373-385.
40. Platteau, J-P. (2004) 'Monitoring elite capture in community-driven development'. Development and Change. 35(2). pp. 223-246.
41. Rajan, S.R. (2002) 'Disaster, development and governance: reflections on the lessons of Bhopal'. Environmental Values. 11(3). pp. 369-394.
42. Ray-Bennett, N. et al. (2010) 'Exploring the meaning of health security for disaster resilience through people's perspectives in Bangladesh'. Health and Place. 16(3). pp. 581-589.
43. Sanderson, D. (1997) 'Reducing risk as a tool for urban improvement: the Caqueta ravine, Lima, Peru'. Environment and Urbanisation. 9(1). pp. 251-262.
44. Sharma, K. (2006) 'The political economy of civil war in Nepal'. World Development. 34(7). pp. 1237-1253.
45. Shukla, S.R. and A.J. Sinclair (2010) 'Strategies for self-organisation: learning from a village-level community-based conservation initiative in India'. Human Ecology. 38(2). pp. 205-215.
46. Tadele, F. and S.B. Manyena (2009) 'Building disaster resilience through capacity building in Ethiopia'. Disaster Prevention and Management. 18(3). pp. 317-326.
47. Tobin, G.A. (1999) 'Sustainability and community resilience: the holy grail of hazards planning?' Environmental Hazards. 1(1). pp. 13-25.
48. Veron, R., G. Williams, S. Corbridge, and M. Srivastava (2006) 'Decentralised corruption or corrupt decentralisation? Community monitoring of poverty alleviation schemes in eastern India'. World Development. 34(11). pp. 1922-1941.
49. Williams, L., A.E. Collins, A. Bauaze, and R. Edgeworth (2010) The role of risk perception in reducing cholera vulnerability. Risk Management. 12(3). pp. 163-184.
50. Wiseman, J. (2006) 'Local heroes? Learning from recent community strengthening initiatives in Victoria'. Australian Journal of Public Administration. 65(2). pp. 95-107.