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The impact of flood disasters on child education in Muzarabani District, Zimbabwe
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2014)
The increase in flood intensity and frequency poses a threat to community infrastructure and affects the total well-being of children in regard to: access to food, health, school attendance, access to clean water and ...
Livelihood vulnerability index analysis: An approach to study vulnerability in the context of Bihar
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2014)
Vulnerability is the capacity to anticipate, cope with, resist and recover from the impact of natural disasters. Floods add to the distressed conditions of the poor and vulnerable people in Bihar. Floods have a different ...
The complexity of maladaptation strategies to disasters: The case of Muzarabani, Zimbabwe
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2014)
Over the past decade disasters have increased both in complexity and multiplicity, worseningthe plight of vulnerable communities the world over. Many communities have devised copingmechanisms to mitigate the impact, but ...