Indigenous Institutions and Their Role in Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience: Evidence from the 2009 Tsunami in American Samoa

Indigineity has emerged as an important area of focus for research and policy making on disaster risk reduction (DRR) and resilience. Most research on indigeneity and DRR centers on indigenous knowledge and its integration with western scientific understandings of hazards and risk. Through a detaile...

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Main Authors: Andrew Rumbach, Dolores Foley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2014-03-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol19/iss1/art19/