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Document prepared by the MF Team for the "Culture and Risk: Understanding the Socio-Cultural Settings that Influence Risk from Natural Hazards" Econference. It contains a reference about gender and climate change vulnerability and culture and risk.
The notes share the experiences of the researcher on how culture influences people’s reactions to volcanic hazards in Central Java, Indonesia. One of the main themes that emerged during the research was that hazard experience influences cultural beliefs and in turn reactions to volcanic hazards. Cronin and Cashman (2007) explain this in some detail, and suggest that experience is often...
He has worked in Hunza, Pakistan, in the Karakoram, mainly in Shimshal, a rural community of about 1500 people. Most of his research has focused on social organisation and social change in this community, especially in the context of trans-cultural interactions. A by-product of these interests has been some peripheral attention to natural hazards and the way people understand and cope with...
This case is based in the Bhavnagar District of the Gujarat State of the Indian Union. It is affected by droughts as well coastal disasters like cyclones and floods. Utthan has been working in this region since 1997 and currently in nearly 150 villages (Jan 2007).
The timber mafia in NWFP has wreaked havoc on the forest of Chitral by illegally felling green trees and smuggling them to other parts of the country. However, the government has failed to take action against the network despite initiating investigations through the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
Chitral's mostly deodar forest spreads over 120,000 acres out of which 100,000...
The World Development Report 2003 addresses how to lift from poverty the three billion people now living in severe deprivation. It also explores how to improve the quality of life for everybody today and for the two billion more who will join mankind in the next thirty years. Substantial increases in growth and productivity will be necessary to achieve this goal. The current scale of economic...
The world is in the midst of an ecological explosion with devastating implications. Thousands of species of microbes, plants, and animals are being introduced, both deliberately and inadvertently, to new land areas, seas, and freshwaters. In many regions, these new colonists are running wild, disrupting the dynamics of ecosystems, pushing native species toward extinction, and causing billions...
Exploring the great wilderness of Alaska's Brooks Range was Robert Marshall's joy and delight during the decade between 1929 and 1939. Marshall traveled this spectacular country, from the Upper Koyukuk drainage to the Arctic Divide, making maps, recording scientific data, and exalting in the beauty of that incredibly pristine landscape. Although his early death at thirty-eight ended an...
This book examines the importance of air pollution for the forests of rapidly industrialising countries and regions. Its geographical coverage includes South and Central America, Africa, and Asia, including Siberia, China and Korea. The problems presented by air pollution are placed within the more general context of sustainable development within these regions and the historical legacy that...
Agroforestry - the practice of integrating trees and other large woody perennials on farms and throughout the agricultural landscape - is increasingly recognised as a useful and promising strategy that diversifies production for greater social, economic, and environmental benefits. "Agroforestry and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Landscapes" brings together 46 scientists and...
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