External stakeholders' attitudes towards and engagement with local knowledge in disaster risk reduction: are we only paying lip service?

RŠ Trogrlić, M Duncan, G Wright… - … Disaster Risk Reduction, 2021 - Elsevier
… involved with community-based flood risk management in … assessments and design of
locally-appropriate plans and … ) explained that ‘if you talk about local knowledge, the first thing …

[PDF][PDF] Local knowledge and community–based assessment of environmental change in Ghana

EK Derbile, A Abdul-Moomin, I Yakubu - Ghana Journal of Geography, 2016 - ajol.info
… as drought, heavy rainfall, floods and rainstorms. However, … that supports the design of national
disaster risk reduction … Now we do not talk of the shea tree again. All the charcoal you see …

[BUCH][B] The value of indigenous knowledge for disaster risk reduction: A unique assessment tool for reducing community vulnerability to natural disasters

J Baumwoll - 2008 - search.proquest.com
… and coral reefs can reduce the impact of tsunamis and coastal flooding (resulting from storms)."
… unique, traditional, local knowledge existing within and developed around the specific …

Assessment of Community-Based Risk (CBR) and Indigenous Knowledge on Climate Change Adaptation: An Overview

MA Alam, V Kumar - Indigenous Knowledge and Disaster Risk Reduction …, 2023 - Springer
… to plot where Fulani Herders in North-Western Ghana are … traditional local knowledge (TLK)
and indigenous ecological … were affected by the worst flood in Bolivia’s history in the northern

Disaster Risk Reduction and Local Knowledge in Flood-Prone Communities: A Nigerian Case Study.

UU Okoroji - 2018 - uwspace.uwaterloo.ca
… of traditional/indigenous/local knowledge in disaster risk … to the Ghanaian government and
Chinese, while denying … of the content analysis of the disaster management framework in …

Evaluating effective public participation in disaster management and climate change adaptation: insights from northern ghana through a user‐based approach

S Samaddar, M Yokomatsu, F Dayour… - Risk, Hazards & …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… This calls for a comprehensive and systematic evaluation of … climate change should incorporate
local knowledge, resources and … and disaster risk reduction. Both in climate change and …

[PDF][PDF] Traditional coping mechanisms in disaster management in the Builsa and Sissala Districts of Northern Ghana

SZ Bonye, JS Godfred - Eur J Soc Sci, 2011 - researchgate.net
disasters, including hazard analysis, vulnerability reduction (… institutions involved in disaster
risk reduction programme in … the importance of harnessing local knowledge not only as a …

The role of local community leaders in flood disaster risk management strategy making in Accra

RA Atanga - International journal of disaster risk reduction, 2020 - Elsevier
… Annually, the City of Accra in Ghana faces flood disasters with … of floods with rich local
knowledge on the flood risk system … of societal analysis, evaluation and reduction of flood risk. By …

Local knowledge and livelihood sustainability under environmental change in Northern Ghana

EK Derbile - 2010 - bonndoc.ulb.uni-bonn.de
… because my analysis of local knowledge in livelihoods would … „natural disasters‟ in disaster
management depicts this … , “when we talk about indigenous knowledge…we are referring …

[PDF][PDF] Indigenous knowledge in flood disaster risk reduction in Kaduna town Nigeria

A Danladi - 2019 - academia.edu
… the analysis of the interviews that the major indigenous flood early … Also, the populists of
Moken society who often talk about the '… and insects stands as a classic illustrations employed to …