Disaster risk reduction
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...
The Hamburg University of Applied Sciences issues the first call for papers for the Worldwide Online Climate Conference CLIMATE 2011/KLIMA 2011 (www.climate2011.net – 7-12 Nov 2011). Be part of this worldwide climate-friendly event and use this unique opportunity to present and discuss your work with fellow researchers, practitioners, NGOs and the...
Even though some degree of reluctance was seen in the past, in considering matters related to disaster risk management in attempts to mainstream adaptation to climate variability and climate change, there is at present a wide recognition of the need to incorporate disaster risk management concerns in dealing with such phenomena. In addition, there is nowadays a growing awareness about the need...
Participatory research approaches are increasingly popular with academic researchers and development organisations working to facilitate change in collaboration with local communities. This paper contributes to recent debates over the use of participatory approaches by examining the use of participatory research within disaster risk reduction. Drawing on research in Papua New Guinea in which...
The benefits of indigenous knowledge within disaster risk reduction are gradually being acknowledged and identified. However, despite this acknowledgement there continues to be a gap in reaching the right people with the correct strategies for disaster risk reduction. This paper identifies the need for a specific framework identifying how indigenous and western knowledge may be combined to...
