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Water harvesting assessment: Strengthening water security in Nepal

This report developed under the CARE for South Asia project assesses the need for water harvesting in Nepal adopting an analytical framework and aims to be a resource material for the development practitioners and planners.
https://www.adpc.net/igo/category/ID1905/doc/2024-fJAm15-ADPC-Water_Sector_Policies_Nepal_WBCAR_Water_1.pdf
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Assessment of water sector policies and guidelines of Nepal: Identifying gaps and addressing needs

The report presents a comprehensive review of the policies, strategies, plans, and legislations related to the water resources sector in Nepal carried and their gaps and needs.
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Economic risk assessment of future debris flows by machine learning method

To estimate the economic risks caused by future debris flows, a machine learning-based method was proposed to generate an economic risk map by multiplying a debris-flow hazard map and an economic vulnerability map.
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Goma Karki: "DRR is a great space to learn, grow and give back to the community, so come be part of it!"

Goma Karki works as Project Manager for Youth Innovation Lab in Kathmandu, Nepal, leading the Nepali Yuwa in Climate Action and Green Growth (The Youth CAN) project.
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Nepal explores tapping flood-risk glacial lakes for clean power

In an effort to turn a risk into a gain, Nepal aims to drain burgeoning glacial lakes and could produce hydropower from the flow.
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Costing disasters: Hedonic pricing, neighborhood effects, and the Nepal Gorkha Earthquakes

This paper proposes a microsimulation approach to estimate the overall cost and distributional impact of disasters rapidly.
Nepalis wait as engineers remove a boulder fallen on the road due to a landslide
Research briefs

Trends in the occurrence of landslides in Nepal from 2011 to 2020

A new paper in the journal Environmental Earth Sciences (KC et al. 2023) shows that there has been a huge increase in the number of recorded landslides in Nepal since the Gorkha earthquake in 2015.
Earth Observatory of Singapore - Nanyang Technological University
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From Nepal to Pakistan: Taking one step at a time in disability inclusion in reconstruction

The “Making Homes Accessible to All” initiative fostered an understanding of disability and accessible infrastructure among masons in Nepal’s post-earthquake reconstruction following the devastating 2015 earthquakes.
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