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Displaying 15 of about 20 resultsA declaration by the Mayors and Local Government representatives together with National Government Officials emphasizing the importance of reducing disaster risk in Arab cities, in which the participants of the First Arab conference for disaster risk reduction recognize the vulnerability Arab cities and towns to disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes,…
A new film depicts how a women’s organisation in India’s northeast provinces is helping local communities share and strengthen their knowledge for dealing with the impacts of climate change.
Adapting effectively to climate change requires a mind shift in how we approach climate knowledge, according to Greeshma Hegde and Sahil Sasidharan from the I…
This report presents observations and recommendations obtained from bottom up, participatory assessments with local communities from Chile, Ethiopia, Iran, Panama, Paraguay, Russia, Samoa, Solomon Islands, South Africa and Uganda, within the Community Conservation Resilience Initiative (CCRI). All the case studies show how local communities and indigeno…
This study considers the role played by devotion (religious faith and belief) and respect for tradition (preservation of time-honoured customs) climate smart agriculture (CSA) adoption in Namibia.
CSA has the potential to increase the resilience of vulnerable communities because it integrates environmental management and climate-change…
By Kieran Cooke
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The town of Hasankeyf, about 80 kilometres upriver from the Ilisu dam, is 12,000 years old and one of the most ancient, continually inhabited settlements on the globe, once a staging post on the famed Silk Road.
When the dam’s reservoir is filled, much of Hasankeyf, along with some of its ancient monuments and Neolith…
Background
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) aims to reduce the damage caused by natural hazards like earthquakes, floods, droughts and cyclones, through an ethic of prevention. Disaster risk reduction is the concept and practice of reducing disaster risks through systematic efforts to analyse and reduce the causal factors of disasters. It could be said th…
This paper explores small-scale farmers’ cultural beliefs about the causes of drought events and the reasoning behind their beliefs. Cultural beliefs vary across countries, regions, communities, and social groups; this paper takes the case of farmers from Gaza province in southern Mozambique as its focus.
Findings show that the farmers have a limited k…
By Isaiah Esipisu
Loiyangalani - At the Marsabit-Lake Turkana Cultural Festival in Kenya's Marsabit County, Mariam Lemuska is not listening to the drums or the music. Instead, she is learning to make injera, an Ethiopian sourdough flatbread.
Lemuska, 39, comes from a pastoralist community that survives mainly on meat, milk and animal blood. But worsen…
By Rosemary Counter
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The first thing a tourist might notice in 2100 at Nova Scotia’s Peggy’s Cove is—not surprising in the least—an ever higher sea level slowly swallowing the picturesque lighthouse. Sea levels of southern Atlantic Canada will experience the largest local sea-level rise in the country; at the same time, the region itself is slow…
This brochure presents the role of UNESCO in disaster preparedness and mitigation. The Organization is closely involved in the conceptual shift in thinking away from post-disaster reaction to pre-disaster action. It addresses the education as the main role to reduce the negative consequences of all kinds of hazards, while highlighting UNECO's role in di…
A declaration by the Mayors and Local Government representatives together with National Government Officials emphasizing the importance of reducing disaster risk in Arab cities, in which the participants of the First Arab conference for disaster risk reduction recognize the vulnerability Arab cities and towns to disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes,…
What’s the context?
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
Archaeologist laments lack of government funding
At the temple of Ninmakh, the Sumerian mother goddess, Iraqi archa…
As global warming fuels extreme weather in climate-vulnerable Yemen, restoring the Tawila Cisterns could help avert future disasters, officials say.
Climate change puts Yemen at risk of floods and drought
Ancient Tawila Cisterns once protected Aden from both
Without action, low-income households at greatest risk
For thousands of years, a network…
This paper explores the traditional indicators that small-scale farmers in Gaza province in southern Mozambique use to predict drought events on their rain-fed farms. It analyzes the contextual situation regarding the accuracy and reliability of the traditional prediction methods under the current weather and conditions of climate uncertainty and variab…
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 Himalaya in Uttarakhand with an aim to explore its use for effective disaster risk reduction in remote and…