Nepal

Peak focus: addressing the increasing impacts of climate change on mountains

Feature / SEI's Kate Williamson and Rosie Witton discuss new insights about climate change adaptation in mountains, a region of growing policy and research attention.

Knowledge infrastructures, conflictual coproduction, and the politics of planning: a post-foundational approach to political capability in Nepal and Thailand

Journal article / Struggles for equality and rights are bound up in urban participatory planning. This complicates dynamics of co-production and political subjectivisation.

Science-Policy Dialogue on “regional cooperation on adaptation to cascading climate risks in the Hindu Kush Himalaya”

Past event / Stakeholders from eight countries meet to discuss cascading climate risks and regional cooperation on adaptation.

Enhancing cooperation to address cascading climate risks in the Hindu Kush Himalaya

Other publication / This brief highlights the importance of cooperation for strengthening regional resilience to cascading climate risks in the Hindu Kush Himalaya.

Integrating rights and equality in disaster preparedness and response: insights from six countries

SEI report / Gender and social equality and human rights–based approaches in disaster preparedness in Cambodia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines and Sri Lanka.

Virtual report launch: Women environmental human rights defenders in Nepal and the Philippines

Past event / This virtual event unpacks the (mal)development-disaster risk relationship of women environmental human rights defenders in Nepal and the Philippines.

Inclusive urban development to reduce biological hazards and disaster risks: a case study of Bharatpur, Nepal

SEI brief / This brief uses a case study of Bharatpur, Nepal, to examine inclusive approaches for urban development to reduce biological hazards and disaster risks.

Locally led needs assessments of loss and damage finance

Past event / This session in this year's Gobeshona Global Conference will detail SEI's research on how to tailor Loss and Damage financial support to local needs.

Women environmental human rights defenders in Nepal and the Philippines: unpacking the (mal)development–disaster risk relationship through lived experiences

SEI report / The study suggests that WEHRDs' knowledge, skills and activism have the potential to break the relationship between maldevelopment and disasters.