Based on papers presented at the 'UK - South Asia Young Scientists and Practitioners Seminar on Climate Change and Disaster Impact Reduction' held at Kathmandu, Nepal on 5-6 June, 2008

Aryal, Komal

Gadema, Zaina

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Debris flow disaster at Larcha, Upper Bhote Koshi Valley, Central Nepal.

Erosion processes in steep terrain - truths, myths and uncertainties related to forest management in Southeast Asia. Forest Ecology and Management

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Measuring the un-measurable - the challenge of vulnerability.

Mountain hazard perception and risk-avoiding strategies among the Sherpas of Khumbu Himal,

National Planning Commission (2002). The Tenth Plan. Road transportation.

National Strategy for Disaster Risk Management in Nepal. Kathmandu:

Relationship between rainfall and landsliding in the Middle Hills,

Self-assessment of coping capacity: Participatory, proactive and qualitative engagement of communities in their own risk management. Measuring Vulnerability to Natural Hazards - Towards Disaster Resilient Societies.

Taking the naturalness out of natural disasters.

The credible and the credulous: the question of &quot;villagers' beliefs&quot;

The Environment as Hazard.

The hazardousness of place: a regional ecology of damaging events.

The Herders of Chitral: The Lost Messengers? Local Knowledge on

The perception of risk at local levels, and ways to measure community vulnerability.&quot; Retrieved 01/02/2007, from 11. http://www.benfieldhrc.org/disaster _studies/projects/imp_com_dis_mit_do cs/Hall%20N.rtf.

The tornado threat: coping styles of the North and the South.

Trends in landslide occurrence in Nepal. Natural Hazards.

Understanding 20 years of change in west-central Nepal: continuity and change in lives and ideas.

Vulnerability to environmental hazards. Hazards, Vulnerability and Environmental

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