An Integrated DRR Approach to Coping Disaster Governance and Building Community Resilience in Mountain Regions of Nepal
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Integrated DRR, Natural Disaster , Community Resilience , Sustainable Development, NepalAbstract
The incidents of avalanche and recent devastating earthquakes in Nepal depicted the necessity of an efficient Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) strategy which would be instrumental to the conservation of biodiversity along with the mountain settlements. Numerous documents forwarded by the United Nations on DRR also reflect on how DRR is a cross-cutting issue and that a consolidated effort is necessary to develop coping mechanisms. This paper reviews the Yokohama Strategy, Hyogo Framework, Sendai Framework and integrated Ecosystem-based DRR and Community-based DRR to develop a collaborative framework that can enhance the community resilience in mountain regions. Based on content analysis and case analysis of recent earthquakes in Nepal, the triple I framework comprising Innovation, Institution and Infrastructure is proposed in supporting the governance and resilience mechanism. It is envisaged that the collaborative efforts of the 3I approach could provide a complete package of biodiversity conservation, community resilience and sustainable livelihood for the vulnerable mountainous communities and ecosystems worldwide.
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