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| Title: | Cultural values and indigenous knowledge of climate change and disaster prediction in Rajasthan, India |
| Authors: | Pareek, Aparna
Trivedi, PC |
| Keywords: | Traditional knowledge
Emergency management
Natural hazards
Biodiversity
Tribal peoples
Rajasthan |
| Issue Date: | Jan-2011 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| IPC Code: | Int. Cl.8 : E04H 9/16; G01W; G01W 1/10; G01W 1/14; G03C; G09G 5/00; G08B 5/00; G08B 5/36; G08B 5/38; G08B 5/40; G04B 25/02; G01P 13/02 |
| Abstract: | This
paper provides a case study in which Indigenous knowledge and traditional
stories relating to cloud formation, lightning, wind direction, rains, drought,
disaster prediction, response, mitigation, and effects of weather on crops are applied
in a contemporary context by the tribal peoples of Rajasthan, India. The state
of Rajasthan falls in an area of high climate sensitivity, maximum
vulnerability and low adaptive capacity. The study documents how individuals in
these tribal communities (including Bhil,
Meena, Banjara, Kathodi, Rabaris, Sansi and
Kanjar) perceive and manage natural disasters and
extreme weather events, including their strategies for early detection of
coming events and for coping with these events, as well as their perceptions of
their short and long term impacts on biodiversity. |
| Page(s): | 183-189 |
| 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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