Traditional and Indigenous knowledges

The project which aims to draw upon local and traditional knowledge will run until 2013. The principal DM officer said the flood warning system '...will have an automatic signal which will alert the community when the water level rises and this will signal out a longer lead time that flood will happen and enable the Ba communities to respond effectively', speaking to the Fiji Times...

A recent workshop in Makassar, South Sulawesi, brought together 45 women from four cities in Indonesia (Makassar, Pare-Pare, Kendari, Palu) to discuss global warming, climate change impact and Indonesia's vulnerability to disasters. Participants were trained to conduct community risk and hazards mapping, identify the impact of global warming and climate change in a local context at the community level and use local knowledge to overcome problems related to the latter, specifically related to health...

This book chronicles the memorable saga of the famed bushmen of the Kalahari, at the exact epicenter of Africa's drought, in their widely publicised recent battle with the government of Botswana. Doing so, it explores the larger story of what many feel

..'The Government has developed a national strategy to cope with climate change and mitigate natural disasters by 2020, but how to turn [it] into a reality is another question', said Institute for Studies of Society's Economics and Environment director in an interview with Dai doan ket newspaper...

'Inuit approach climate change not only as a crisis, but as an opportunity to adapt, to find new techniques for living sustainably within the natural world' says Zacharias Kunuk, producer and co-director with environmental scientist Ian J. Mauro, of 'Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change' launched online today...

Indigenous youth, and their diverse engagements outside their communities, have critical roles to play in building their communities’ awareness of climate change and strengthening their capacity in disaster risk reduction and preparedness, reports Dallay Annawi in an ESSCNews editorial, as indigenous peoples in the Philippine uplands face higher vulnerability to disasters...

Mount Fako is renowned for its spate of eruptions. Oluwole Olusegun Akiyode and Awa Mangie Achu Samba have looked through historic perspectives, developmental antecedents of residents and indigenous communities and are highlighting the need for an effective disaster risk reduction policy for the region...

This document addresses the mechanisms and policies that can be used to support improvements in generating, disseminating, and using climate information to respond to the direct effect that extreme climatic events, such as droughts and floods, as well as