A new report published by IHRR from the interdisciplinary project ‘Building Rural Resilience in Seismically Active Areas’ is now available . This research focuses on how to increase the resilience of rural communities in Nepal to earthquakes and their secondary hazards, such as landslides. There is a clear role to play for both the physical and social sciences to engage with communities vulnerable to earthquakes, especially communities in developing countries such as Nepal.
There is much discussion about what is ‘public engagement with science‘ and what it accomplishes for researchers as well as the communities they work with. This research brief introduces some of the activities researchers used to engage with rural communities in Nepal about the physical causes of earthquakes as well as obtaining an understanding of people’s own knowledge of hazards, which plays an important role in building resilience. A good starting point for increasing resilience is identifying what scientific knowledge is needed by communities as well as working directly with those communities who live in rural areas that are most vulnerable. These along with other recommendations given in the report provide an initial framework for fostering resilience.
Report: Building Rural Resilience in Seismically Active Areas
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