Sign In
Learn bits
Index & Reports
Mahesh

21/07/22 04:36 AM IST

Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2022

In News 
  • The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2022 (GP 2022) took place in Indonesia from May 23-28, 2022.
  • The theme this year was ‘From Risk to Resilience: Towards Sustainable Development For All in a COVID-19 Transformed World’
Indigenous practices have used traditional knowledge, alongside modern techniques, to help manage disaster risk:
  • Cultural burning ( Ancient Australian technique to reduce bushfire): Controlled fires in small areas burn, reducing undergrowth and dead wood while preserving larger trees and allowing wildlife to escape
  • Natural flood management(age-old traditional forecasting and flood-prevention methods to limit the risks of seasonal flooding in Nepal and the Tibetan Plateau):These include planting flood-resistant crops and digging drainage ditches and moats.
  • Community-based early warning systems using environmental indicators: Observations of changes in cloud shapes, rainfall patterns, fauna activity, wind velocity, star positions and temperatures help anticipate floods and trigger preparations to minimize their impacts.
  • Traditional remedies after flooding – like using green coconut milk to treat diarrhoea, cholera and dysentery – help with recovery, alongside any modern medical treatments that might be available.
  • Safe areas(In Sulawesi, Indonesia, the Kailli communities have passed on historical knowledge of natural hazards): Folksongs recount past experiences of disasters and pass on lessons learnt from predecessors about a range of hazards and their causes: tsunamis, earthquakes, and ground liquefaction resulting from earthquakes.
  • The villages include safe areas, known as ‘Kinta’, which have always been used as refuges during seismic events.
Source - PIB 

More Related Current Affairs View All

18 Aug

Impact of Ethanol Blending

'E20 petrol, which contains 20% ethanol and is being sold by Indian oil refiners, has been much in the news lately. ' India has achieved its target to blend 20% ethanol per litr

Read More

18 Aug

Uttar Pradesh govt want to take over the 150-year old Krishna shrine

'The Banke Bihari Temple Trust Bill, 2025 was introduced in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly recently.' The Bill allows the formation of a board of government-appointed trustees, incl

Read More

18 Aug

Uttarakhand’s Bill against forced religious conversion

'The Uttarakhand Cabinet approved making the legal provisions against forced religious conversion more stringent in the state, including by raising the duration of jail sentences a

Read More

India’s First Ai-Driven Magazine Generator

Generate Your Custom Current Affairs Magazine using our AI in just 3 steps