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| Title: | Traditional Intellect in Disaster Risk Mitigation: Indian Outlook–Rajasthan and Bundelkhand Icons |
| Authors: | Gupta, Anil K
Singh, Anjali |
| Keywords: | Disasters
Water
Drought
Traditional knowledge
Rajasthan
Bundelkhand |
| Issue Date: | Jan-2011 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| IPC Code: | Int. Cl.8 : A47G 19/26; G09G 5/00; G08B 5/00; G08B5/36; G08B 5/38; G08B 5/40; G04B 25/02 |
| Abstract: | Natural
disaster’s impact on the community and development’s sustainability are
occurring in aggravated and multiplied size and intensity. Global concern for
finding appropriate ecological indicators stems partly from our inability to
interpret early warning signals of a major ecological change, given the
complexity of ecological systems. Traditional ecological knowledge represents
experience acquired over thousands of years of direct human contact with the
environment. Communities have evolved with the nature, its resources, its risks
and natural processes as well which in certain conditions act as disasters due
to their damaging impacts. Traditions of food, culture, spirituality, ethics
and livelihoods have developed in the background of these natural or
anthropogenic challenges in the background of interface between nature and
human development, and thus, communities possess experience and knowledge to foresee,
analysis, prepare for and face these challenges to sustain with resilience. India has a
treasure of such indigenous and traditional knowledge of natural resource
management and these can be extrapolated to understand the modern concepts of
disaster risk management – in terms of early warning, preparedness, mitigation,
response and relief as well. Rajasthan and Bundelkhand, the regions
historically known for drought disaster present icons showcasing the
traditional wisdom. Present paper reviews the concepts and associated
ecological hypothesis, traditional knowledge framework for disaster management
in Indian context and discusses cases from Rajasthan and Bundelkhand in order
to evolve recommendations for science and policies. |
| Page(s): | 156-166 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print) |
| Source: | IJTK Vol.10(1) [January 2011]
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