Indigenous knowledge

Indigenous knowledge

Indigenous early warning system, local implementation, knowledge, skills, technical knowledge; traditional knowledge, transferable indigenous knowledge.

2009

In Disasters, in press:

This paper presents a framework demonstrating how relevant indigenous and scientific knowledge may be integrated to reduce a community's vulnerability to environmental hazards, using a participatory approach and focusing on small

Overseas Development Institute Wiley-Blackwell
First Peoples Worldwide is awarding three $5,000 grants for videos documenting indigenous communities using traditional knowledge to adapt to, or mitigate the impacts of climate change on their lands and waterways...
First Peoples Worldwide
In the 1980s a group of farmers in the West African country of Burkina Faso decided to fight back against years of drought by resuscitating their barren rock-hard land to grow more food than only what they needed to survive...
The New Humanitarian
The ScienceDaily reports on the Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change and its agenda to discuss mitigation and adaptation policies inclusive of indigenous peoples...
ScienceDaily
2009

This policy note aims to provide a directional path for mainstreaming indigenous knowledge in disaster risk reduction by national authorities and ministries of disaster management and education, institutions of higher education in disaster management, and

European Union Sustainable Environmental and Ecological Development Society United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
2007

The general purpose of this report is to provide inspiration and ideas to implementing organizations to help them understand and identify local knowledge, practices and contexts in relation to disaster preparedness. For this purpose, a case study was

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO)
2008

This publication aims to build awareness for indigenous knowledge as an effective tool for reducing risk from natural hazard-related disasters. By improving the understanding of indigenous knowledge and providing concrete examples of how it can be

European Union United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
2007

This publication is one of a series produced under the project ‘Living with risk – sharing knowledge on disaster preparedness in the Himalayan region’, implemented by ICIMOD during a 15-month period in 2006 and 2007. It is based on a review of literature

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO)