Our objectives are (1) to contextualize the assertion that food sovereignty is a better concept than food security for dealing with the food-disaster connection, using specific examples in the Philippines; and (2) to demonstrate that two key principles of food sovereignty鈥攅mphasis on the local...
In the following sections, we are going to present how and why SAR daily images can help us to monitor natural catastrophes and will give a few examples per different peril. Show more View chapter Explore book Kenya: A Natural Outlook ...
Examples from the Corpus From Longman Business Dictionarydi‧sas‧ter/dɪˈzɑːstədɪˈzæstər/noun[countable, uncountable]1a sudden event such as a flood, storm, or accident which causes great damage or suffering100 people died in the mining disaster.Hurricane Katrina was ...
A disaster attributed in part or entirely to human intent, error, negligence, or involving a failure of a man-made system, resulting in significant injuries or deathsExamples 9/11, Columbine High School massacre, Exxon Valdez, NASA’s Challenger, Columbia, Chernobyl Segen's Medical Dictionary. ...
in the Philippines wherein the extent of devastation can only be realised when presented in a map. Personally, I find disaster data reporting extremely challenging -- too much complexity in the presentation can turn off the audience but oversimplification on the other hand can also be misleading....
For instance, we find several examples of countries that experienced economic losses higher than the long-term average (Fig. 1c) but reported PFA change close to 0, among them Mexico, Vietnam, Australia, Cuba, Japan, Romania, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Thailand. As shown in Fig. 2, the...
Let us take for example the 2016 earthquake in Ecuador that caused a death toll of at least 660 people and injured thousands, severely disrupting the country's economic activity. Similarly, the 2015 super typhoon Haiyan was the deadliest disaster ever recorded in the Philippines; the lack of ...
Pitched asCon Airon a boat,Project Wolf Huntingis set aboard a cargo ship that has been transformed to house prisoners as they are transported from the Philippines to South Korea. It does not take long for the prisoners to take control of the ship, but when a new threat emerges, the crimi...
Following an overview of theoretical background about indigenous knowledge's place in disaster risk reduction, two examples are detailed: the first is a framework for combining knowledge in Papua New Guinea, and the second participatory three-dimensional mapping in the Philippines. The theory and ...
By their pure nature, natural disasters are global phenomena that people refer to by different names, for example, the 2014 typhoon Rammasun1 is known as typhoon Glenda in the Philippines. In this paper, we present our ongoing early-stage research on a realtime Wikipedia-based monitoring ...