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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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Asia's next disaster

A BBC special debate from Bangkok on the future of disaster management in Asia, in which Mike Williams asks what makes Asia so vulnerable to 'natural' disasters, what the region can do to lessen the impact of these disasters, and how it can adapt to the increased numbers of disasters forecast for the future...

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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Reckoning climate change: Local peoples’ perception on the impacts of climate change in South-Central and Northern Bangladesh

The current study is a part of "Regenerative Agriculture and Sustainable Livelihoods for Vulnerable Ecosystems" (RESOLVE) programme, which intends to explore the magnitude and impacts of different natural hazards namely flood, riverbank erosion, salinity

Unnayan Onneshan - the Innovators, the
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Harmonized perspectives

Study for the harmonization of knowledge and experience from the indigenous/local, technical and scientific spheres for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change (CC) programming:

The aim of the study is to visualize the current situation on the

CARE International
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UNESCO JFIT STRESCOM regional workshop on hydro-meteorological disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation for coastal and small island communities - Final report

This report deals with the UNESCO Office Jakarta three-year project entitled 'Strengthening Resilience of Coastal and Small Island Communities towards Hydro-meteorological Hazards and Climate Change Impacts (StResCom)'. This project was launched in

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
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Area-based development, local institutions and climate adaptation: a comparative analysis from West Africa and Latin America

This report on adaptation to climate variability and change draws together the conclusions of a series of comparative case studies undertaken for the Area-Based Development and Climate Change (ABDCC) project of the Social Development Department of the

World Bank, the
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The Wave That Eats People – The Value of Indigenous Knowledge for Disaster Risk Reduction

As the United Nations today commemorates the 17th International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples under the theme of "Indigenous designs: celebrating stories and cultures, crafting our own future", it is perhaps timely to flag the positive contributions such cultures are able to make to DDR and CCA.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
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El Perú indígena pide políticas de adaptación al cambio climático

En Perú la alianza indígena, quiere que el nuevo gobierno de Ollanta Humala que tomará posesión el próximo jueves 28 de Julio, emprenda políticas de adaptación al cambio climático...

Agencia EFE, S.A.
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Strengthening voices: How pastoralist communities and local government are shaping strategies for adaptive environmental management and poverty reduction in Tanzania’s drylands

This booklet describes the acheivements of the ‘Strengthening Voices’ project launched in 2007. It explains How pastoralist communities and local government are shaping strategies for adaptive environmental management and poverty reduction in Tanzania’s

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
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