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Indigenous Knowledge and Disaster Risk Reduction - 9781607415749

Un libro in lingua di Shaw Rajib (EDT) Sharma Anshu (EDT) Takeuchi Yukiko (EDT) edito da Nova Science Pub Inc, 2009

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People who have lived in a place for a long time--dozens or hundreds of generations--usually have a pretty good idea what sorts of things might happen there and what to do about them if they do. The problem is how to integrate that knowledge into the policy of a government that is almost always based on a model from elsewhere. Here contributors from earth and environmental sciences, development, planning, disaster management, and other fields explore the problem from a number of perspectives, and survey efforts to resolve it in particular situations. Among the topics are river basin management, water resource management and climate change, communication tools, decision making, indigenous knowledge and natural resource management in the Philippines, building disaster resilience in Tuvalu, farming practices and water management in the dry zones of Sri Lanka, the transition of local rule in a Japanese waterside community in Gujo-Hachiman, and earthquake safe traditional housing practices in India. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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