Assessment of social vulnerability to natural hazards in Nepal

Gautam, Dipendra

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-2313-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-2313-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-2313-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 12

Research article

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15 Dec 2017

Research article |

| 15 Dec 2017

Assessment of social vulnerability to natural hazards in Nepal

Dipendra Gautam

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Final revised paper (published on 15 Dec 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 18 Apr 2017)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Social vulnerability assessment in Nepal', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 May 2017
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer 1', Dipendra Gautam, 21 Aug 2017
RC2: 'Paper_nhess-2017-137', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 Jul 2017
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer 2', Dipendra Gautam, 21 Aug 2017

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by Editor and Referees) (03 Sep 2017) by Sven Fuchs

AR by Dipendra Gautam on behalf of the Authors (14 Oct 2017) Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (16 Oct 2017) by Sven Fuchs

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (25 Oct 2017)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (09 Nov 2017)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (09 Nov 2017) by Sven Fuchs

AR by Dipendra Gautam on behalf of the Authors (10 Nov 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (13 Nov 2017) by Sven Fuchs

AR by Dipendra Gautam on behalf of the Authors (13 Nov 2017)

Short summary

Social vulnerability to natural hazards in Nepal is presented in this article. The findings highlight that most of the districts in Nepal are at a high to very high social vulnerability level. The western parts of the country are found to be more vulnerable than the central and eastern parts.