Bhaktapur suffered 300 deaths, 2,000 wounded and over 30,000 houses damaged in the 2015 earthquake. Heritage restoration has become crucial to community recovery.
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Nepal’s past dealing with multiple disasters, including the aftermath of its civil war and the massive earthquake of 2015 may have helped the country prepare for the current COVID-19 crisis.
Nepal’s capital city was devastated by the 2015 earthquake, but rebuilding heritage sites has been fraught with difficulties.
Reconstruction progress in Nepal has been painfully slow. Building code compliance and better urban planning are a must – but inequitable access to resources undermines recovery.
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Associate professor Disaster Management and structural Engineering
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Associate Professor, Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience, University of Florida
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Professor, DRR expert, University of Dhaka
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Associate Professor in Construction Management/Disaster Resilience, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and School of Public Policy & Global Affairs; Ivan Head South-North IDRC Chair, University of British Columbia
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Senior Lecturer in Spatial Planning, Queen's University Belfast
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Teaching Faculty, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FoHSS), Tribhuvan University
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Professor, Geography Department and School of Public Policy & Global Affairs, University of British Columbia