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From animals to earthquakes: communicating South Asia’s research
INASP’s Siân Harris shares stories of some of the research going on in South Asia and the communication challenges facing researchers in the region
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n April Nepal experienced a huge earthquake. Aside from the terrible humanitarian implications of the earthquake and its aftershocks, there was a side story to tell: the value of local research.
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The Nepal Journals Online (NepJOL) platform, established by INASP in 2006 and in the process of being handed over to local management by Tribhuvan University Central Library, provides a platform for Nepalese
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journals, and the research they contain, to reach a worldwide audience. Journals hosted on the platform have published papers on many aspects of earthquake risk. For example, a 2012 paper by Harihar Paudyal warned that the region was ‘highly compressed’, with dire potential consequences for future seismic activity. And a decade before the most recent earthquakes, Bijaya K. Shrestha warned how poor urban planning has exacerbated Kathmandu’s vulnerability to tremors, with ‘haphazard urban (re)development in the historic core area’.
Nearby Bangladesh also suffers from earthquakes as well as flooding. Articles in journals hosted on the BanglaJOL platform, which is being handed over to management by Bangladesh Academy of Sciences, reveal how disaster mitigation strategies work best when developed collaboratively with communities, with awareness of local topology and architecture.
The Journals Online platforms, of which there are four in Asia within INASP’s stable and another two already in the hands of local managers, provide a great insight
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