AA Eras-Almeida, MA Egido-Aguilera - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
The common agreement of the United Nation members pushes the 2030 Agenda ahead to alleviate poverty and ensure wellbeing for all, recognizing energy as a crucial pathway to …
A growing awareness of the value of indigenous knowledge has prompted calls for its use within disaster risk reduction. The use of indigenous knowledge alongside scientific …
Volcanic eruptions can produce a wide range of hazards. Although phenomena such as pyroclastic flows and surges, sector collapses, lahars and ballistic blocks are the most …
The benefits of indigenous knowledge within disaster risk reduction are gradually being acknowledged and identified. However, despite this acknowledgement there continues to be …
This book provides a wide-ranging comparative analysis of contemporary economic, social, political and environmental change in small islands, island states and territories, through …
I Kelman - Island Studies Journal, 2018 - islandstudiesjournal.org
Small island developing states (SIDS) are portrayed as icons of climate change impacts, with assumed islandness characteristics being used to emphasize vulnerability. Meanwhile …
Islands are known to be vulnerable to natural hazards, resulting in substantial risks for their tourism industries. To facilitate the systematic analysis of the underlying vulnerability drivers …
I Kelman - The Geographical Journal, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is frequently touted as the biggest development challenge that faces humanity. Such rhetoric may be distracting from other development challenges which need …
A Gero, K Méheux… - Natural Hazards and …, 2011 - nhess.copernicus.org
It is acknowledged by academics and development practitioners alike that many common strategies addressing community based disaster risk reduction and climate change …