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Cover and source: Natural Hazards
Documents and publications
This review of landslide inventories provides an essential assessment of the state of knowledge around landslide hazard and can guide the focus of future studies.
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Lack of high-tech equipment and effective search and rescue constrains Nepal’s disaster response.
The Kathmandu Post
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Documents and publications
The DPC builds on Nepal's NDCs under the Paris Agreement, focusing on adaptation and resilience in high-risk sectors. It underscores the importance of strengthening institutions and resource allocation to address growing climate challenges effectively.
Cover and source: Practical Action
Documents and publications
This brief details knowledge and experiences shared with communities, practitioners, and decision makers in the Bardiya and Kailali Districts in Nepal to make resilience a way of life, finding ways to adapt to and prepare for flood events.
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Inclusive collective action together with data-based decision-making can help to address climate vulnerabilities and low adaptive capacities.
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Cover and source: Sustainability (MDPI)
Documents and publications
This study produced spatial multi-criteria-based flood susceptibility, vulnerability, and risk index maps for the Kathmandu Valley (KV) watershed in Nepal using an Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach and Geographical Information System (GIS).
 Flood Refuge
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Researchers from Nepal, India, Sweden, Australia, the United States, and the UK collaborated to assess to what extent human-induced climate change altered the likelihood and intensity of extreme rainfall that led to devastating landslides and floods.
World Weather Attribution
Students in Nepal examine a hazard-related mural at their school
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Being at the forefront of new technologies and environments, youth and children are full of fresh ideas, energy, and enthusiasm.
NewsPolar

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