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Ecosystem management that attempts to maximize the production of one ecosystem service often results in substantial declines in the provision of other ecosystem services.
For this reason, recent studies have called for increased attention to development of a theoretical understanding behind the relationships among ecosystem services. Here, we review the literature on ecosystem services...
The issue of coping up with environmental uncertainties, arising from ‘climate change’ which is part of a larger set of ‘global change’ phenomena, complex on account of its having multi parametric nature and uncertainities in quantifying the parameters to sufficient precision, (Bondeau et al., 1997; Walker et al., 1999; Ramakrishnan, 1998). Added to this complexity is the less understood...
This account of volcanic eruption and subsequent evacuation in Tonga was given to Jame Lewis by Town Officer, Mr. Moeake Takai, who kept a diary of event at the time, and to whom the author is deeply wishes to acknowledge permission granted by the Ministry of Overseas Development and the Government of Tonga for the publication of this article.
The destruction of Avarua on Raratonga in the Cook Islands by Cyclon Sally in January 1987 was a rare reminder of an infrequent hazard. With only twenty-two cyclones in the Cook since 1841, they are clearly not an everyday experience there. Through tiny islands may be missed even by massive cyclones, they can be totally wrecked when they are in the path of quite small ones.
Food security for many Africans requires exploiting a wide variety of resources. People living on the coastal savanna of southern Mozambique use the landscape’s diversity to supplement domestic food production. This photo essay highlights the variety of resources used and problems faced in achieving food security in two communities in Matutúine District, Mozambique. Although the focus of essay...
In late 2007, climate change receive extensive international prominence with the Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change (IPCP) and former US Vice President Al Gore being aware the Nobel Prize for their climate change work. This award focusing exclusively only on climate change, obscured the tireless research and practice of many other dedicated to linking climate change, other climate topics...
This study focuses on the adjustment of two lowland ethnic groups of the Philippines, i.e. the Kapampangans and the Ilokanos, to the resettlement program set up in the aftermath of the 1991 Mt Pinatubo eruption and lingering lahars. Victims from both ethnic groups challenged the layout of the resettlement site and the design of the houses. However, the Kapampangans maintained strong links with...
The 26 December 2004 earthquake and tsunami unfairly hit the different ethnic groups of Aceh, Indonesia. About 170,000 Acehnese and Minangkabau people died in the Northern tip of Sumatra while only 44 Simeulue people passed away in the neighbouring Simeulue island located near the earthquake epicentre. Such a difference in the death toll does not lie in the nature of the hazard but in...
Purpose – This article sets out to address the response of traditional societies in facing natural hazards through the lens of the concept of resilience.
Design/methodology/approach – This paper considers that resilient societies are those able to overcome the damage caused by the occurrence of natural hazards, either through maintaining their pre-disaster social fabric, or through...
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