Indigenous knowledge

Indigenous knowledge

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

Two indigenous people demonstrating fire making craft.
A new study led by SMU suggests bringing “good fire” back to the U.S. and other wildfire fire-prone areas, as Native Americans once did, could potentially blunt the role of climate in triggering today’s wildfires.
Southern Methodist University
Climate-related indigenous knowledge systems to support anticipatory action in Zimbabwe
2022
This study considers consider the integration of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the anticipatory action decision-making processes.
World Food Programme
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2022
This study investigates Navala traditional houses, their constructability, and the apparent ability of its houses to resist cyclone hazards.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
Indigenous people at an assembly in Brasil
Spring is here, and with it comes the threat of more floods. Australia is currently experiencing its third consecutive year of a La Niña weather cycle. This means we expect more rainfall than average over the spring and summer months.
Conversation Media Group, the
Cover_Food for thought Climate change risk and food (in)security in Tuvalu
2022
This study evaluates the risk of climate change from the perspective of food security domain considering exposure to flood hazard.
Elsevier
As climate change erodes Iraq's ancient monuments, age-old techniques are helping repair the damage. Climate change raises salt levels around ancient Babylon. Salinity corrodes ruins of humanity's oldest monuments
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Machu Picchu in Peru.
Climate change is not only influencing our weather: it poses an existential threat to the outstanding universal value (OUV) of many of the world’s most precious sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, and potentially to the World Heritage system itself.
Conversation Media Group, the
Within DRR literature, there is strong advocacy for the inclusion of the local community in disaster planning and response as well as a stronger focus on community resilience.
Chr. Michelsen Institute