Browsing Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies by Issue Date
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Social resilience: the forgotten dimension of disaster risk reduction
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2006)The current thinking in the Disaster Risk Reduction field emphasizes assessment and reduction of vulnerability and especially social vulnerability as an important factor in mitigating the effects of disasters. In the process ... -
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Towards a methodology for the use of geo-information technology in disaster assessment
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2006)Disaster assessment entails the description of disaster events and their impact on human lives, property and the environment. Information is a vital component of this process, and geo-information technology in particular ... -
The need for an integrated disaster risk reduction management strategy in North African cities: a case study of urban vulnerability in Algiers (Algeria)
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2006)For the North African countries, geological, environmental and technological hazards constitute a constant threat to human life and property, sometimes causing major economic losses and disruption. The rapid urbanization, ... -
Incorporating HIV/AIDS considerations into vulnerability assessments for disaster risk reduction
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2006)The paper briefly highlights the link between HIV/AIDS and vulnerability, the latter being a focus point of DRR. In particular it investigates in which ways HIV/AIDS contributes to the vulnerability (for the purposes of ... -
Use of satellite images to map flood extension around the city of Saint Louis in the Senegal River Estuary
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2006)The traditional method of landsat satellite data combination and the gathering of important information made it possible to produce a Geographical Information System to monitor floods in the lower estuary of the Senegal ... -
A letter from the Director of the African Centre for Disaster Studies - The different faces of vulnerability: are we making any impact at all?
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2006)Vulnerability is the common cause of the immense disaster risk present on the African continent. -
Reducing disaster risk through vulnerability assessment: an agricultural perspective
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2006)A growing population, economic and environmental losses due to natural or human-made disasters, provides the need for a systematic approach to the management of risks. It is generally accepted that a multi-disciplinary ... -
Geographic information systems based demarcation of risk zones: the case of the Limbe Sub-Division – Cameroon
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The silent victims of humanitarian crises and livelihood (in)security: a case study among migrants in two Chadian towns
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2009)Once a humanitarian disaster receives coverage in the global media, the international community usually mobilises to reduce the most severe consequences. However people in Chad are experiencing endemic crises that are ... -
Resettlement of communities - The case study of Jaguaribara: a resilient community (Northeast of Brazil)
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2009)This paper examines the displacement of the inhabitants of Jaguaribara (Northeast Brazil) who were resettled due to the construction of the “Castanhao”. #e Government planned a new city to shelter the inhabitants from “Old ... -
Grasping the hydra: the need for a holistic and systematic approach to disaster risk reduction
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2009)This article stresses the significance of recognising interdependencies between factors determining disaster risk in any attempts to integrate disaster risk reduction in international development cooperation. It bases its ... -
Cotton farmers’ vulnerability to climate change in Gokwe District (Zimbabwe): impact and influencing factors
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2009)This study analyzes the vulnerability of cotton farmers to climate change in a cotton growing district in Zimbabwe. The vulnerability indicators studied include cotton output and farmers’ livelihoods from cotton farming. ... -
Public management and disaster risk reduction: potential interdisciplinary contributions
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2009)This article investigates the interdisciplinary nature of Disaster Risk Reduction as an emerging field of study. The development of this field of study is interpreted within the context of the evolution of Public Management ... -
The risk society: towards a new modernity [Review]
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2009)The present review discusses one of the pioneer projects authored by Ulrich Beck, regarding risk perception issues, which was originally titled Risikogesellshaft, Auf dem weg in eine andere Moderne or in English The society ... -
Editorial
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2009)When O’Keefe, Wisner and Westgate (1976) in their now seminal article wanted to “take the naturalness out of natural disasters” the response from the broader academic and development communities was not very positive. How ... -
Foreword
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2009)The conditions prevailing in the world, where fast growing populations are coupled with rapidly expanding urbanization and a general increase in poverty levels, are greatly aggravating the disaster risks and vulnerabilities ... -
Letter from the director of the African Centre for Disaster Studies
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2009)The African Centre for Disaster Studies (ACDS) has come a long way since its inception in 2002. Not only has the Centre found a new home within the Research Focus Area: Sustainable Social Development, but its staff component ... -
Local human development in contexts of permanent crisis: women’s experiences in the Western Sahara
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2009)Sahrawi women are active agents in the social dynamics of the refugee camps, in which they have developeda number of coping strategies to overcome the hardships of a deteriorating humanitarian situation. Since the outbreak ... -
From marginality to further marginalization: experiences from the victims of the July 2000 Payatas trashslide in the Philippines
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2009)Victims of disasters are disproportionately drawn from the marginalized segments of society. Disaster victims are marginalized geographically because they live in hazardous places, socially because they are members of ...
