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Grassroots women leaders practise community-based disaster management in the Philippines

Grassroots women leaders practise community-based disaster management in the Philippines

What is a disaster? What are the root causes and material manifestations of vulnerability? What is well-being and what efforts do community leaders and civil society engage in as front-line responders to disasters? These are the questions that PhD doctoral candidate, Chaya Go asked in her doctoral dissertation on A Feminist Political Ecology of Disasters

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Linking participatory mapping in local risk mapping to strengthen resilience: A pilot study in Mexico

Linking participatory mapping in local risk mapping to strengthen resilience: A pilot study in Mexico

The project aimed to address gaps in research by developing a deeper understanding on how municipal governments use the Atlas in planning and development. Mexico is already known globally for its best practices in disaster risk reduction, including its disaster risk management framework, but it has been found that there are issues with the municipal

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