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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.

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Cultures and disasters: understanding cultural framings in disaster risk reduction

This book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to explore the cultural dimension of disasters, with contributions from leading international experts within the field. Section I provides discussion of theoretical considerations and practical research to

Taylor & Francis
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Weather forecasting: traditional knowledge of the people of Uttarakhand Himalaya

Journal of Geography, Environment and Earth Science International, 3(3): 1-14, 2015; Article no. JGEESI. 19016. DOI:10.9734/JGEESI/2015/19016

This study highlights and documents indigenous weather forecasting knowledge of the people of the Higher

ScienceDomain International
The Words into Action process will energize implementation of the Sendai Framework (Photo: UNISDR)
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Sendai Framework action under way

UNISDR has added new momentum to the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, a 15-year international plan to curb deaths and economic damage caused by natural and man-made hazards.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) greets a participant at a special event in New York marking International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (Photo: UN Photo/Rick Bajornas)
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Indigenous knowledge key for DRR

Indigenous knowledge is an important source of wisdom for sustainability, UN Secretary-General Bank Ki-moon says, underlining an issue that it is also crucial for disaster risk reduction.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - New York UNHQ Liaison Office
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Knowledge apartheid in disaster risk management discourse: is marrying indigenous and scientific knowledge the missing link?

Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, Vol 7, No 1 (2015), 10 pages, doi:10.4102/jamba.v7i1.150:

This article presents findings from research on drought vulnerability and coping conducted in Zimbabwe's Buhera and Chikomba districts in 2009

AOSIS OpenJournals
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From Yokohama to Sendai: approaches to participation in international disaster risk reduction frameworks

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, June 2015, doi:10.1007/s13753-015-0053-6:

Taking the importance of local action as a starting point, this article looks at the treatment of participation, the incorporation of indigenous knowledge, and

Springer
The theme for 2015 will focus on the use of traditional, indigenous and local knowledge.
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'Knowledge for Life' – UN launches search for communities good at managing the risk of disasters

The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) today launched a search for communities that demonstrate excellence in managing disaster risk in order to draw attention to the importance of local knowledge, traditions and customs in the struggle against extreme weather events, climate change and earthquakes.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
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Process for integrating local and indigenous knowledge with science for hydro-meteorological disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in coastal and small island communities

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (2014), Volume 10, Part A, December 2014, pp. 15–27, doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2014.07.007:

This paper presents a process for integrating local and indigenous knowledge related to hydro-meteorological hazards

Elsevier
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