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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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The calamity of eruptions, or an eruption of benefits? Mt. Bromo human–volcano system a case study of an open-risk perception

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 15, 277–290, 2015 www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/15/277/2015/ DOI:10.5194/nhess-15-277-2015:

This paper reports the findings on an investigation into why people actively choose to live with continued exposure to

European Geosciences Union
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Colombia: Listening to the volcano - Nasa communities blend ancestral knowledge with contemporary seismology in Colombia

'It is not just about reducing risk and it is not just about natural disasters, its also about investment in the social, political, and economic issues and the life quality of the population,' said Colombian Making Cities Resilient Promoter Henry Peralta, in an article by National Geographic...

National Geographic Society
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US: Interior Department to announce $8 million for tribal climate change adaptation and planning projects

'As governments at all levels work on these challenges, we are committed to partnering with American Indians and Alaska Natives to build more resilient and sustainable communities and economies. This funding can help tribes prepare and plan for climate-related events and build capacity to address these evolving challenges,' said Secretary Jewell...

Department of the Interior
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IFRC: Lethal Pacific storm marks start of Sendai disaster conference, as IFRC and UN call for 'unprecedented cooperation' on climate

'With climate-related disasters now dominating this agenda, it’s imperative governments ‘think big’ at WCDRR by embracing ambitious risk-management, especially looking at real risks facing local people,' said Juriaan Lahr last week, Head of International Assistance at the Netherlands Red Cross...

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
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Using folklore in planning: Integrating traditional knowledge in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

This commentary addresses the relevance of the grassroots level for the post-2015 framework for DRR debate by focusing on the importance of integrating traditional knowledge in DRR, particularly for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) that are facing increasing disaster risks as a result of climate change...

Hague Institute for Global Justice, the
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Incorporating indigenous knowledge into disaster policies

A stated objective in the Development of the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction is to ensure the use of traditional and local knowledge to complement, as relevant and appropriate, scientific knowledge in disaster risk assessment and the development and implementation of policies, plans and programmes...

Association of Caribbean States
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Livelihood adjustments to climate change and foreign migrant worker - working paper no. 9

This paper explores the impact of climate change on livelihood options that affect migrant workers in Indramayu District, Indonesia. In this paper, migration is considered as an adaptation measure used by affected community members facing the challenges

Resilience Development Initiative
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Aceh: Rising from disaster to be world reference in recovery - opinion

Based on recent research on the 10-year tsunami recovery, four aspects within the government — tsunami risk understanding, disaster data openness and accessibility and integration of the tsunami risk map into spatial planning and policies —have produced solid achievements...

Jakarta Post, the
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