Situating local stakeholders within national disaster governance structures : rebuilding urban neighbourhoods following the 2015 Nepal earthquake

• Main Authors: Daly, Patrick, Ninglekhu, Sabin, Hollenbach, Pia, Duyne Barenstein, Jennifer, Nguyen, Dori
• Other Authors: Earth Observatory of Singapore
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Decentralization; Disaster Governance; Science::Geology::Volcanoes and earthquakes
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83247; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/50414
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal on 25 April 2015, killing nearly 9,000 people and destroying half a million homes. This paper analyses the effectiveness of Nepali government institutions managing the reconstruction. Using institutional ethnography, we analyse how the post-earthquake governan...