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Increasing Resilience to Natural Hazards Report

(15 June 2011)

A new report published by IHRR is available, 'Building Rural Resilience in Seismically Active Areas'.

This Research Brief introduces work by a multi-disciplinary team of researchers on building resilience of rural communities to seismic hazards in Nepal. Findings of the research fall under four different themes:

• Local understandings and perception of earthquake hazards
• Uneven local knowledge
• Forecasting primary and secondary seismic hazards
• Science communication and the governance of earthquake risk reduction activities

Link to report: Building Rural Resilience in Seismically Active Areas