Indigenous Knowledge in Disaster Risk Reduction
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Integrating Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge Bases for Disaster Risk Reduction in Papua New Guinea
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It is part of the knowledge generation component of the Education in Emergencies and Post-Crisis Transition (EEPCT) programme – a partnership between UNICEF, the Government of the Netherlands and the European Commission. The content of this report does not necessarily reflect UNICEF's official position. Also, the text has not been edited to official publication standards; hence UNICEF accepts n...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1395-4199
DOI: 10.22439/cjas.v37i1.5908