vulnerability is one way of engaging and moblising community capacity. This paper discuses he use of the local/ indegenious … risk. To measure local knowledge and wisdom of the community statistically new model has developed through primary data …Linking indegenious knowledge of the community with modern techniques to mesure, analyse and reduce disaster …

, disaster management, with theoretical discussion on vulnerability of the local communities in developing countries. …

, disaster management, with theoretical discussion on vulnerability of the local communities in developing countries. …

The present study attempted to assess the vulnerability of coastal areas of Pakistan that cashed in one's chips in the … monsoon flood, 2010. This assessment helps to recognize the vulnerability of local people of coastal communities for planning … also ignores these areas in the provision of educational facilities. Considering the disaster vulnerability of coastal …

–ecological systems to risk from hazards. The ability of social–ecological systems to build resilience in the context of hazards is an … important factor in their long-term sustainability. The role of resilience building in understanding the impact of hazards in …–ecological systems built resilience through avoidance, which was effective for localized hazards. The more recent development and …

changing nature of the hazards themselves. All three factors are contributing to increasingly turn hazards of nature into … are at the greatest risk, with the heaviest toll on low- and lower-middle-income economies. These catastrophes threaten …

Purpose Decision-makers, practitioners and community members have a need to assess the disaster resilience of their … stakeholders on definitions, objectives and indicators for measuring a key dimension of community disaster resilience (CDR … what resilience means and how it can be measured. This paper proposes a novel technique to achieve consensus among …