Recovering well: assessing the Social Vulnerability Index's ability to account for household recovery outcomes after the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake

• Main Author: Teo, Julia Zhongwei
• Other Authors: David Lallemant
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::Geography::Natural disasters
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/156732
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study investigates to what extent the Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI) can account for household recovery outcomes after the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake in Nepal, using household survey data collected in 2019 from some of the most hit districts in the country. The results of this study found across...