Arabinda Mishra|Rucha Ghate|Amina Maharjan|Janita Gurung|Govinda Pathak|Aakash Nath Upraity
Building ex ante resilience of disaster-exposed mountain communities: Drawing insights from the Nepal earthquake recovery
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development|International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development|International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development|International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development|International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development|International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
government nongovernment development agencies increasingly focusing building resilience community level especially postdisaster recovery interventions operationalizing concept resilience methodological challenge aftermath recent major earthquake nepal international centre integrated mountain development icimod working developing community resilience framework help identify policyrelevant factors contributing building resilience using method qualitative comparative analysis qca data 30 earthquakeaffected mountain communities analysed identify combinations factors may serve necessarysufficient conditions resilient recovery outcomes results establish six factors natural resource endowment physical connectivity access external development services entrepreneurship social homogeneity local economy combining according community context give five different factor combinations importantly factors individually insignificant seen combination factors exercise significant influence recovery outcomes study concludes proposing policymakers possible identify appropriate combinations contextual factors ex ante nourish build resilience