ABOUT

Safer Society: A South Asian Journal of Disaster Risk Management is a double-blind, peer-reviewed, not-for-profit scholarly e-journal. It is open-access, freely available to all. It adheres to international COPE standards for ethical publications to protect reader, author, reviewer and the integrity of the peer-review process. 

Safer Society covers interdisciplinary research, planning, policy, theory, and field experience in:

• Disaster risk management,

• Disaster risk reduction,  

• Disaster recovery,

• Natural hazard impacts,

• Social vulnerability to natural hazards, and

• Sustainable development.

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Safer Society’s publishes research articles, research briefs, theoretical articles, case studies and opinion pieces. Submitted manuscripts must be original work that has not been submitted for publication elsewhere, except as thesis, lecture or abstract. Under special circumstances and on a case-by-case basis, the editor-in-chief may decide to print part or all of a previously published piece. 

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Its geographic scope is South Asia - Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Manuscripts that compare disaster risk management issues in South Asia to other places will also be considered. Its focus is on natural hazards but the journal also accepts manuscripts that take an all-hazards approach.

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Safer Society publishes in English, with an option for author to publish abstracts in a second language of their choice. 

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Safer Society is hosted by the National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal (NSET), Nepal's foremost institution working on earthquake risk management. NSET’s mission is to assist all communities in Nepal to become earthquake-safer by developing and implementing organized approaches to managing and minimizing earthquake risks. Today, NSET’s seismic risk reduction activities are being adopted regionally and globally. 

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NSET believes that South Asian researchers, practitioners, and policy makers have important insights on issues of disaster risk management. They manage disasters and work towards risk reduction in one of the world’s most hazardous and fastest growing regions. NSET hosts Safer Society to ensure those working on disaster risk management in South Asia have a platform for:

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• Supporting dialogue among its community of practice

• Improving scholarship through critical review

• Providing a record of ideas, controversies and innovation