Browsing by Subject "Disaster resilience"
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Alternative guidelines for mainstreaming climate and disaster resilience options into municipality integrated development planning : a case of Zambia
(North-West University (South Africa), 2021)The Zambian government has enacted and promulgated the Urban and Regional Planning Act (3 of 2015) that mandates all municipalities to use integrated development planning and plans (IDPs) as principal planning and budgeting ... -
Emergent system behaviour as a tool for understanding disaster resilience: the case of Southern African subsistence agriculture
(Elsevier, 2016)Prominent international policy documents such as the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 and contemporary academic discourses on disasters reiterate the importance of understanding and prioritising ... -
Reconsidering disaster resilience: a nonlinear systems paradigm in agricultural communities in Southern Africa
(Springer, 2018)Disasters continue to have a dramatic impact on lives, livelihoods and environments communities depend on. In response to these losses, the global community has developed various theories, assessment methodologies and ... -
Translating disaster resilience into spatial planning practice in South Africa: challenges and champions
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013)It is highly likely that hazards and extreme climatic events will occur more frequently in the future and will become more severe – increasing the vulnerability and risk of millions of poor urbanites in developing countries. ...
