Knowledge apartheid in disaster risk management discourse: Is marrying indigenous and scientific knowledge the missing link?
Indigenous knowledge (IK) is a key component of disaster risk management (DRM) and development planning, yet it is often overlooked, with practitioners preferring to use scientific knowledge. Critics of IK have termed it archaic, primitive, a constraint to development and inferior to scientific know...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2015-05-01
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| Series: | Jàmbá : Journal of Disaster Risk Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://jamba.org.za/index.php/jamba/article/view/150 |