Journal:

• Bhandari, R.B., Owen, C. and Trist, C. (2015),“Incident Management Approaches above the Incident Management Team Level in Australia”. Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, Volume 12, Issue 1, pp. 101–119.
• Bhandari, R.B., Okada, N. and Yokomatsu, M. (2015), “Trust and Coping with Disaster Risk; A case study of communities in Osaka, Japan”. (Under Review: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction).
• Owen, C., Bhandari, R.B. and Brooks, B. (2014), “The role of distributed collaboration in emergency management coordination”. (Under Review: Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management).
• Bhandari, R. B., Owen, C. and Brooks, B. (2013), “Organizational features and their effect in the perceived performance of emergency management organizations”, Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 222- 242.
• Bhandari, R.B. (2013), “Social Capital and Disaster Risk Management; A case study of social capital mobilization following 1934 Kathmandu Valley Earthquake in Lalitpur, Nepal”, Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 314- 328.
• Bhandari, R. B., Yamori, K., and Okada, N. (2010), “Interpreting Urban Ritual Event in Terms of Improving the Capacity to Cope with Disaster Risk”, Journal of Japan Society for Natural Disaster Science (JNDS), Vol.32, No. 1, 2010, pp. 31-42.
• Bhandari, R. B., Knottnerus, J. D., and Okada, N. (2010), “Urban Ritual Events and Coping with Disaster Risk: A Case Study of Lalitpur, Nepal”, Journal of Applied Social Science, an Official Publication of the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology, Paradigm Publishers, USA, Vol.5, No. 2, 2011, pp. 13-32.
• Bhandari, R. B.(2006), “Urban Transformation and Pre-disaster Vulnerability of Chapagaon, Lalitpur, Nepal”, Vaastu - Journal of Architecture Nepal, ASA publication, Tribhuvan University, Nepal, Vol. 8, pp.5-10.

Book:

• Bhandari, R.B., Urban Rituals and Coping with Disasters; Case Studies of Japan and Nepal, Sage, UK (to be published).

Other Works Forthcoming / Under Review / In Progress:

• Bhandari, R.B (2019), “An Ethnographic Account of Nepal Earthquake 2015”. (UnderReview: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction).
• Bhandari, R.B., Okada, N. and Yokomatsu, M. (2018), “Trust and Coping with Disaster Risk; A case study of communities in Osaka, Japan”. (Under Review: Disaster Prevention and Management).
• Owen, C., Bhandari, R.B. and Brooks, B. (2017), “The role of distributed collaboration in emergency management coordination”. (Under Review: Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management).

Selected Conference Papers / Reports (* indicates peer reviewed papers)

• Owen, C., Bhandari, R.B., Bearman, C., Abbassi, A. and Brooks, B. (2014), “Organising for Effective Incident Management Final Report”, Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre (BCRC), Australia, April, 2014.
• Owen, C., Brooks, B., Paton, D., Bhandari, R.B., Curnin, S. and Bearman, C. (2013). “Multiagency Emergency Management Coordination above the IMT”, BCRC Fire note 118 under Effective Incident Management Organising above the Incident Management Team Project, October, 2013.
• Bhandari, R. B. and Curnin, S. (2012), “Case study of incident management approaches: Examining state level arrangements”, University of Tasmania and BCRC, Australia, 2012.
• Bhandari, R.B., Owen, C., Curnin, S. and Brooks, B. (2012), “Draft report to the AIIMS Steering group to provide guidance and direction on incident management approaches”, Report submitted to the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
• Bhandari, R.B. and Okada, N. (2010), “Social Capital as the basis for community disaster resilience: Case Studies from Japan and Nepal”, The 10th IIASA – DPRI Conference of Integrated Disaster Risk Management Society, Vienna, Austria, October, 2010.
• *Bhandari, R. B., Okada, N., Yokomatsu, M., and Ikeo, H. (2010), “Analyzing Urban Rituals with Reference to Development of Social Capital for Disaster Resilience: A Case Study of Kishiwada, Japan”, Peer reviewed article in IEEE, International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Istanbul,Turkey,ISSN:1062-922X,pp.3477-3482. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5642437&tag=1.
• Bhandari, R. B., Okada, N., Yokomatsu, M., and Ikeo, H.(2010), “Urban Rituals, Social Capital and Disaster Resilience: Analysis of findings from Japan”, The Fifth China-Japan Joint Seminar on Risk Management- Addressing Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management & Energy Security, Beijing, China, March 25-27, 2010.
• Bhandari, R. B. and Okada, N. (2009), “Interpreting Urban Ritual Event as a Means to Improve the Capacity to Cope with Disaster Risk: A Case Study of Urban Communities in Kathmandu”, Proceedings of the Young Scientists Session, the 9th IIASA-DPRI Conference on Integrated Disaster Risk Management, Kyoto, Japan, pp.7-13.
• *Bhandari, R. B. and Okada, N. (2009), “Activating the Process of Risk Communication through Urban Rituals: A Case Study of Kathmandu, Nepal”, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Institute of Social Safety Science Japan, (No. 24), pp. 71-74.
• *Bhandari, R. B., Okada, N., Yokomatsu M. and Ikeo H.(2009), “Building a Disaster Resilient Community through Ritual based Social Capital; A Brief Analysis of Findings from the Case Study of Kishiwada”, Annuals of Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, No. 53A, pp.137-149.
• *Bhandari, R. B. and Okada, N.(2009), “Formulating Time Tested Knowledge for Sustainable Disaster Risk Reduction; A Case Study of Kathmandu”, Annuals of Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan, No. 52 B, pp. 145-152.
• *Bhandari, R. B. and Okada, N.(2008), “Urban Diagnosis as a Method to Assess Vulnerability of Communities in the Context of Spatial Planning and Management; Kathmandu Valley”, Annuals of Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan, No. 51 B, pp. 147-154.

Conference Posters:

• Bhandari, R.B. and Owen, C. (2013): ‘Influence of Organisational features in emergency management performance, A case study of Australia and New Zealand”, The Annual Conference of Australian Fire Authorities Council, AFAC 2013, Melbourne, Australia.
• Owen, C., Bhandari, R.B., Bearman, C., Brooks, B. and Curnin, S. (2013): “Multiagency Emergency Management Coordination in Australian Jurisdictions”, The Annual Conference of Australian Fire Authorities Council, AFAC 2013, Melbourne, Australia.
• Bhandari, R.B., Owen, C. and Brooks, B. (2012): “Organisational features and their effect in the perceived performance of emergency management organizations”, The Annual Conference of Australian Fire Authorities Council, AFAC 2012, Perth, Australia.