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Indigenous knowledge for disaster risk reduction in South Asia [1]

This report by SDMC documents the indigenous knowledge of different communities living in multi-hazard zones Nepal, Sri Lanka and India. Shows that communities use the indigenous knowledge to anticipate natural hazard that afflicts them to prepare better to face the disaster.

The SDMC-ADRC joint project, under the SAARC

Publication Date: 
01/11/2008
SAARC Disaster Management Centre [2]
Tags:
Natural Disasters [3], Floods [4], Earthquakes [5], Drought [6], Disaster Management [7], Disaster Preparedness [8], Traditional Knowledge [9], Nepal [10], Sri Lanka [11], India [12], Rajasthan [13], Uttar Pradesh [14], South Asia [15]
Centre for Science and Environment
National Knowledge Commission Government of India

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