Background
In the past decades since the M6.6 Udaypur earthquake of 1988,
Nepal has done a great stride in Earthquake Risk Management: there
have been tremendous progress in policy formulation, for example
development and implementation of the National Building Code,
Academic researches and teaching in aspects of earthquake
engineering, seismological researches including trendching of active
faults and better understanding of the past earthquake events, and
earthquakes risk management including earthquake awareness and
education, in implementation of earthquake risk reduction initiatives
such as the assistance to Municipalities in Building Code
implementation, instrumentation and monitoring, and so on. Innovative
methodologies and programs have been developed and implemented
collectively. There is a visible process of the development of national
school of thought.
The approaches and successes of the past had been tested by the
Gorkha Earthquake sequence of 2015, and Nepal has learned rich
but expensive lessons. It is with this desire to learn collectively from
the past, especially the efficiency of our approaches, and then to
chart out a future strategy for earthquake risk management in the
country, and also to celebrate the successes of the Gorkha Earthquake
reconstruction and to critically evaluate the outcome of the approaches
adopted, we are organizing this international conference
RISK2RESILIENCE. This idea is to design a future strategy based
upon the lessons learned so far in aspects of earthquake risk
management in Nepal.
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