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21/07/22 04:36 AM IST

Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2022

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  • 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 

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