Traditional and Indigenous knowledges

Practices and skills to reduce community vulnerability and cope with hazards, accumulated over many years of living in a specific environment and passed down from one generation to another.

Latest Traditional and Indigenous knowledges additions in the Knowledge Base

This manual is designed to help build the capacity of trainers in flash flood risk management, who can then disseminate the knowledge to a larger number of practitioners. The manual presents an eight-day course including a three-day field trip. Detailed

Community adaptation and risk reduction governance series, issue 3, December 2012:

This issue focuses on local knowledge preserved in the almost forgotten flood legend from Arso, Keerom, Papua Province, Indonesia. The authors argue that local risk

This briefing deals with the importance of traditional knowledge in adapting agriculture to climate change for indigenous peoples and local communities. It states that researchers and policymakers agree that adapting agriculture to is a priority for

by Flickr user cimmyt / International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0, http://www.flickr.com/photos/cimmyt/5114506073/
AlertNet reports that some farmers in the Southern Highlands are more likely to use traditional maize varieties, as it is suggested that traditional knowledge could be good to adapt agriculture to climate change...
Thomson Reuters Foundation, trust.org

This guideline aims to: (i) focus on the linkages between disasters and housing and the rationale for mainstreaming disaster risk reduction (DRR) into housing; (ii) provide possible approaches (entry points/enabling environment) as guidance to government

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, Vol 40, No 4, pp. 647–659:

According to research conducted with the communities in northern Canada,  changing ice conditions increase exposure to hazards associated with ice use for hunting and travel. Instrumental

Polar Record Vol 42 (221), pp. 127–138:

This paper argues that the starting point to understand how rapid climate change may affect Arctic indigenous communities is analysis of past and present experience of, and response to, climate variability and

This publication captures and shares the process, tools, and lessons from a pilot adaptation project in the Cook Islands. The basic idea was to field-test a participatory approach that incorporates local knowledge and engages vulnerable communities in the

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