Opinion: Indigenous knowledge for disaster risk reduction

Source(s): Financial Express
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M. Mizanur Rahman writes, 'It is evident that anticipation and prediction of climatic events by the community by using their indigenous knowledge make them better prepared to face the impact of disasters. But the problem is - as these knowledge are not documented properly and so transferred orally, these are mostly deviated and thus do not work effectively as they did earlier.'

He continues, 'capturing and disseminating these sorts of indigenous knowledge for disaster risk reduction may be very helpful for the communities prone to disasters. These are the people who have the history of survival for hundreds of years.'

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