01895nam a22001457a 4500 533760 533760 260616b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Poudel, Dilli P. et al 61267 Multi-level urban risk governance and the injustice of misframing: Kathmandu Valley, Nepal Environment & Urbanization 38(1), Apr, 2026: p.22-42 The decentralization of authority, capability and finance is widely considered to be best practice in urban risk governance. Drawing on the concept of misframing from critical justice theory, we analyse injustices arising from the de jure decentralization of risk governance in Nepal, scrutinizing multi-scalar urban risk governance and its impact on resilient and equitable urban planning. Informed by qualitative research conducted from 2019 to 2024, we ask: How does the (mis)framing of risk governance affect local actors’ capacities to manage risks? And to what extent can inclusive, risk-informed urban planning and policy facilitate just decentralization? We identify a disconnect between risk-management responsibilities assigned to local government and its capacity to meet these expectations. Proposing a typology of misframing, we provide recommendations for the design and deployment of more equitable and contextually appropriate financial, technological and administrative decentralization as a pathway to justice that can overcome rigid scalar jurisdictions.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09562478261423424?_gl=1*1folug2*_up*MQ..*_ga*MzI4NTE1NDM5LjE 3ODE2MDQ1MTI.*_ga_60R758KFDG*czE3ODE2MDQ1MTEkbzEkZzEkdDE3ODE2MDQ4MzYkajQ2JGwxJGgxNzQ5MDk3OTY2 Decentralization, Haphazard urbanization, Just disaster risk governance, Local government, Localization, Multi Scale risks, Nepal, Unjust urbanization 61268 Environment &Urbanization AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 408938 IIPA IIPA 2026-06-16 38(1), Apr, 2026: p.22-42 AR139230 2026-06-16 AR