and most recently Ukraine in 2022. We've worked in refugee camps for Sudanese in Kenya and Angolans in Zambia, and in the slums of Manila, Yangon, Dar es Salaam and Veracruz. We're on faculty in several locations and have taught courses in disaster management and disaster medicine at inst...
Furthermore, Indigenous agricultural adaptation methods to withstand climate risk are crucial. Local farmers in Swaziland and Tanzania are known to cultivate drought-resilient crops (cassava, sweet potatoes, sorghum, millet, cowpeas etc.). Mixed cropping is a farming technique practised in Kenya so t...
As space-based Earth observations are delivering a growing amount and variety of data, the potential of this information to better support disaster risk management is coming into increased scrutiny. Disaster risk management actions are commonly divided into the different steps of the disaster management...
2.2. Coastal Management With 84% of the countries of the world having a coastline with the open ocean, inland seas, or both, the global coastline is a huge entity totaling 1,634,701 km [32]. Although the coastal zone plays a crucial role in human habitation, agriculture, aquaculture, fis...