Building model of information, education and communication clubs for preventing natural disasters to improve disaster prevention capacity of local ethnic minority communities - Results and lessons learned (Case studies of Gie Trieng ethnic group in Kon Tum province and Co Ho ethnic group in Lam Dong province)

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vu Thi Thanh Minh

Climate change and sea level rise are an existing threat of humanity in the 21st century. The victims of natural disasters and climate change are none other than people who suffer with increasing levels of disasters for a country and a region. Therefore, the study proposes and implements solutions to minimize negative impacts of natural disasters and adapts to the process of global climate change, which is an urgent task of every country. One of the solutions to improve the capacity of natural disaster prevention and mitigation for ethnic minorities is to educate and raise awareness for people in natural disaster prevention. Thus, building a model of clubs for information, education and communication for preventing natural disasters to improve disaster prevention capacity of ethnic minorities is of utmost importance.

Author(s):  
Le Thi Nhu Quynh

Life skills education to deal with the climate change and management of natural disaster prevention for students in ethnic minorities boarding high schools are very necessary nowadays. Based on educational activities of life skills, we establish and develop the awareness, attitudes and behavior for students, help them to find the causes and consequences of climate change and the natural disaster so that they shape attitudes and behavior of themselves in adaptation and mitigation due to climate change and natural disasters, as well as conscious propaganda for everyone to perform, toward a better life, a civilized society, meet overall educational goals during the current period. So that, life skills education for the goals of meeting the needs of disaster prevention for students are concerned. However, we not only say doctrinairely but also pay attention to the results of the life skills education due to meet the needs of disaster prevention, by then we form perceptions, attitudes and behavior for students in schools and in society. So there must be coordination between the forces of education in schools with families and society. Therefore, life skills education for students acquire sustainably. Assay results consulted reviews of managers, teachers showed that life skills educational management measures meeting the needs of disaster prevention for the students are necessary and available, suitable with the practice of ethnic minorities boarding high schools.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vu Thi Thu Trang

Through survey results on the status of management of life skills education activities to cope with climate change and disaster prevention for the sustainable development of local communities in the ethnic minority boarding high schools in the Northwestern region from 2013 to 2018, the author deeply analyzed and assessed the strengths, weaknesses, causes of strengths and weaknesses of the management of education activities on life skills to cope with climate change and disaster prevention for the sustainable development of local communities for ethnic minority students at boarding high schools for ethnic minorities in the Northwestern region in the present period and the issues raised.


Author(s):  
Pham Van Truong ◽  
Ngo Quang Son

Life skills education meet the needs of disaster prevention and management of life skills education meet the needs of disaster prevention for pupils in ethnic minorities boarding junior secondary schools to establish and develop the awareness, attitudes and behavior for pupils, help them to find the causes and consequences of climate change and the disaster so that they shape attitudes and behavior of ourselves in adaptation and mitigation due to climate change and natural disasters, as well as conscious propaganda for everyone to perform, toward a better life, a civilized society, meet educational goals overall during the current period. Life skills education meet the needs of disaster prevention for pupils of the schools are concerned, however, is not only to say doctrinaire but must essentially by the results of the life skills education meet the needs of disaster prevention is formed perceptions, attitudes and behavior of pupils in schools and in society so there must be coordination between the forces of education in schools with families and society. Like that, life skills education for pupils acquire a sustainable. Assay results consult reviews of managers, teachers showed that life skills educational management measures meet the needs of disaster prevention for the pupils proposed are necessary and available high performance, consistent with the practice of ethnic minorities boarding junior secondary schools.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenchen Ren ◽  
Xiuming Zhang ◽  
Stefan Reis ◽  
Jiaxin Jin ◽  
Jianming Xu ◽  
...  

Abstract Maintaining food production while reducing agricultural pollution is a grand challenge under the threats of global climate change, which has exerted negative impacts on agricultural sustainability. How agricultural nitrogen use and loss respond to climate change is rarely understood. Here we show that climate change leads to inequality of cropland nitrogen use and loss across global regions based on historical data for the period 1961-2018 from 143 countries. Increases of yield, nitrogen surplus and nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) are identified in 30% of countries, while reductions are observed for the remaining 70% of countries, as a result of climate change. Farm size changes further intensify the inequality of nitrogen use and pollution in global croplands. Yet, enlarging farm size can facilitate climate change adaptation, by which global cropland NUE could be increased by one-third in 2100 compared to 2018 under future shared socioeconomic pathways. Our results would be of great significance to sustain global agriculture as well as eliminate national inequalities on food production and agricultural pollution control.


2012 ◽  
Vol 610-613 ◽  
pp. 704-707
Author(s):  
Min Xu ◽  
Hong Xin ◽  
Chunshan Zhao ◽  
Na Zeng

Nursing undergraduate students are a reserve force for the rescue of natural disaster. Their abilities in self-cognition and response are supposed to be closely related to the development and perfection of them in moral and personality, and their attitude and quality when they are engaged in nursing work in the future. The questionnaire investigation demonstrated that the nursing undergraduate students understood the natural disaster cognition to some extent, but their understanding was limited and one-sided; the students’ abilities in the disaster cognition were influenced by sex, the cognition on nursing specialized responsibility, the self-role cognition and the deed to disaster reserve knowledge (P < 0. 05), indicating that they did not have a full ability to deal with a disaster independently. Therefore, nursing undergraduate students should be educated through various pathways and in different forms in colleges and universities to improve their cognition on the disaster prevention and handling ability.


2010 ◽  
Vol 92 (879) ◽  
pp. 713-730 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vikram Kolmannskog ◽  
Lisetta Trebbi

AbstractMillions are displaced by climate-related disasters each year, and this trend is set to increase as climate change accelerates. It raises important questions about how well existing instruments actually protect people driven from their homes by climate change and natural disasters. This article first examines current protection instruments and points out gaps in them. There follows an exploration of various proposals for filling those protection gaps, with the focus on cross-border natural-disaster-induced displacement. A multi-track approach is recommended, including context-oriented and dynamic interpretation of existing law, and creation of new law. Adhering to the principle of non-refoulement, and focusing on whether return is possible, permissible, or reasonable, could be a realistic way to begin developing protection regimes for victims of natural-disaster-induced displacement.


2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongbo Liu ◽  
Wanhong Yang ◽  
Chengzhi Qin ◽  
Axing Zhu

<p>Understanding the impacts of global climate change on the spatiotemporal pattern of hydrologic cycle and water resources is of major importance in highly developed watersheds all over the world. These impacts are strongly dependent on related changes in intensity and frequency of extreme climate events. Implementation of Best Management Practices (BMPs) and policy approaches at watershed and regional scales is essential for mitigating their negative impacts on soil and water conservation, and sustainable economic development. However, the uncertainty of BMP effectiveness including increasing variability of future water supply and changing magnitudes of nonpoint source pollution has to be accounted for in watershed planning and management. This paper provides a review and discussion on the impacts of global climate change on BMP’s hydrologic performance, the current progress on hydrologic assessment of BMPs, as well as the existing problems and countermeasures. Research challenges and opportunities in the field of hydrologic assessment of BMPs under global climate change are also discussed in this paper.</p>


2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 473
Author(s):  
Maria De Loudes de Carvalho Fragoso ◽  
Vitória Régia Fernandes Gehlen ◽  
Tarcísio Augusto Alves da Silva

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo discutir a condição das mulheres em situação de desastres naturais. A problemática está relacionada às enchentes e inundações ocorridas na Região da Mata Sul de Pernambuco e busca, a partir da análise bibliográfica, verificar como as mulheres em situação de vulnerabilidade socioambiental que vivenciaram as enchentes e inundações respondem aos impactos destrutivos desses eventos para ao final podermos apresentar uma agenda de pesquisa relacionada ao problema.  O trabalho, de caráter teórico, foi construído a partir do levantamento de dados bibliográficos e seu resultado conclui que a vulnerabilidade aos desastres é socialmente construída e está relacionada a padrões socioeconômicos, culturais, ambientais, de segurança e de acesso a informação, sendo suas consequências distribuídas de forma desigual entre homens e mulheres. No enfrentamento das catástrofes as mulheres, mesmo sendo vítimas de danos maiores que os homens adotam diferentes estratégias e tentam reconstruir a teia que liga as suas vidas a responsabilidade na manutenção e reprodução da família. Observa-se na região carência de implementação e execução de políticas públicas direcionadas ao atendimento as mulheres em situação de emergência provocada por desastres naturais. Por fim, o artigo indica a relevância de uma agenda de estudos sobre as desigualdades de gênero na Mata Sul como forma de evidenciar os impactos negativos provenientes do desastre socioambiental ocorrido na Região, o qual atinge de formas diferenciadas a vida feminina e masculina.Palavras - chave: Desastres naturais, Desigualdades de gêneros, Gênero e Meio Ambiente, Políticas Públicas. The Women Condition Facing Situations of Natural Disaster ABSTRACTThe present paper has as objective the discussion about the condition of women in situations of natural disasters. The problem is related to the floods in the Mata Sul Region of Pernambuco and, from the literature analysis, it search to verify how women, in situation of socioenvironmental vulnerability, that have experienced flooding respond to destructive impacts of these events to, it the end, it be possible to present a research agenda related to the problem. The work, of a theoretical character, was built from the bibliographic data collection and its result concludes that the vulnerability to disaster is socially constructed and it is related to socioeconomic, cultural, environmental and security patterns and pattern of access to information, being their consequences unevenly distributed between men and women. In coping with catastrophes, women, even being victims of further damage that men, they adopt different strategies and try to reconstruct the web that connects their lives responsibility in the maintenance and reproduction of the family. It is observed in the region lack of implementation and execution of public policies directed to the treatment of women in emergency situations caused by natural disasters. Finally, the article indicates the relevance of a research agenda about gender inequalities in the Mata Sul as a way to highlight the negative impacts of the environmental disaster occurred in the region, which affects in different ways the male and female life.Keywords: Natural disasters, gender inequalities, Gender and Environment, Public Policy.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara Zolnikov ◽  
Daisy Ramirez-Ortiz ◽  
Jennifer Raymond ◽  
Deborah Chambers ◽  
Robert Brears ◽  
...  

Abstract Introduction: Climate change affects people, not only through environmental exposures and health outcomes, but how they live their lives. Consequences will affect various sectors, ranging from tourism to water to energy development—areas where people live, work, and enjoy. Because of these forced changes, people must adapt. Methods: A scoping review was created to understand climate change vulnerability alongside adaption and resiliency measures that are being implemented in each continent of the world; this review is a subset of information from Zolnikov, T. R. (2019). Global Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change. In: T. R. Zolnikov (Ed.). Cham, Switzerland; Springer International Publishing. Results: It was determined that adaptive capacity differs worldwide. This is likely because the capacity to adapt and change is linked to both social and economic development; some regions in the world may not be sufficiently equipped and thus, may not be able to mitigate or adapt to changes. Such was the case in Australia, Europe, and North and South America, where economic resources were more available, and the general culture of climate change appeared to be more developed through various policies. Whereas, for example, Asia and Africa were less economically developed and focused less on individual changes, but joined larger climate change agreements, such as the Kyoto Protocol. Conclusions: The objective of this review was to understand the differences that may help or hinder progress under the new world set forth by climate change. The information provided evidence that a “one size fits all” approach does not work to promote climate change resiliency. In fact, each continent in the world suffers from some barriers to change, while also offering elements of success that can be shared. It is these types of lessons learned that can help pull the world together to learn from each other and promote the effectiveness of measures as well as the capacity for populations to adapt. Keywords: Climate Change, Environmental Health, Global Health


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