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The literature on people's response to volcanic hazards tends to be split between two paradigms. The first argues that the choice of adjustment depends on how people perceive rare and extreme volcanic phenomena and the associated risk. The second considers that people's behavior in the face of natural hazards is constrained by social, economic and political forces beyond their...
Participatory research approaches are increasingly popular with academic researchers and development organisations working to facilitate change in collaboration with local communities. This paper contributes to recent debates over the use of participatory approaches by examining the use of participatory research within disaster risk reduction. Drawing on research in Papua New Guinea in which...
The benefits of indigenous knowledge within disaster risk reduction are gradually being acknowledged and identified. However, despite this acknowledgement there continues to be a gap in reaching the right people with the correct strategies for disaster risk reduction. This paper identifies the need for a specific framework identifying how indigenous and western knowledge may be combined to...
Man has designed ways where he can stand taller than a giraffe, travel faster than a gazelle and tunnel deeper into the eath than any rodent. This has become possible not because he has grown a long neck, swifter legs or sharper claws, but because he possesses certain faculties which make him uniquely man. One of these skills is the human language skill as a communications medium. Without the...
The language of the manuscript in question is difficult. One part is written in Sanskrit and the other part in old Newari. Bendall borrowed the manuscript and it was taken to London for research, resulting in the article: 'The History of Nepal and Surrounding Kingdoms'. The author challenges some of the interpretations of the manuscript and looks to correct a few mistakes in the book that was...
<p>Did Bristish expansion in India constitute a threat to survival and security of the emergent Gorkha state? If such a threat existed, was Gorkhali reaction one of fear, precaution or heightened activity towards internal unity and external security?</p>
<p>The author seeks to address these questions, taking into account the problem of establishing what the Nepali...
This article is a field analysis of data from anthropological research the author has been carrying out in the town of Pokhara, in west central Nepal. He has examined what he has found to be in close relation of these systems with Brahmin-Chhetri economic choice in a situation of change and development. The author concentrates on presenting and analysing Brahman-Chhetri kinship and its main...
Rodighar, an institution found among the Gurungs of Nepal, exists in a similar form among Magars. On one level, the rodighar (ghar N- house, from rot II G ro- friends? or sleeping place, tII - house) can be described as a nightly social gathering place, a semi-permanent dormitory where young girls and boys of the village congregate to sing, talk and joke. In some areas, the rodighar seems to...
<p>Kitini Gaon Panchayat is located in the south eastern fringe of the Kathmandu Valley about eight miles from the headquarters of Lalitpur District Panchayat in Pata. Kitini is connected with Kathmandu by a motorable road. Agriculture is the main occupation, but some people gain their livelihood from other sources such as quarrying.</p>
<p>The article examines the...
<p>Colonel Kilpatrick's mission to Nepal was undertaken in early 1793. His itinerary lasted less than seven weeks, from February 13 until April 3. The cause of the mission lay as far as Nepal was concerned, in the danger that was looming large in the north just before the start of the Nepal-Tibet war of 1972. Nepal wanted military help from the British government of Bengal to...
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