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Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal (2025) 34 (2): 172–185.
Published: 03 September 2024
... to identify how disaster management knowledge has changed from pre-colonization to the present. Findings Before colonization, local knowledge associated with traditions of asking gods and ancestors for rain and blessings in life prevailed. With colonization, around the 1500s, Portuguese rulers attempted...
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Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal (2022) 31 (3): 193–201.
Published: 24 September 2021
... Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Disaster risk reduction Resilience Landslides India Local knowledge Himalayas My involvement helped to create different communication channels for the research, widening the scope of voices heard in the research...
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Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal (2019) 28 (1): 126–142.
Published: 17 October 2018
... Risk governance Local knowledge Community-based DRRM Role of NGO Underlying risk factors The underlying purpose of this special issue has been to foreground understandings of disaster risk reduction (DRR) from the perspective of local actors, particularly locally based NGOs, leading...
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Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal (2016) 25 (5): 664–684.
Published: 19 October 2016
.... Findings The Views from the Frontline (VFL) methods began as the bottom-up mirror of a top-down monitoring approach used by the United Nations (Hyogo Framework for Action Monitor). Limitations of such bottom up monitoring led to creation of guidelines for formalising local knowledge resulting from actions...

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