Indigenous Knowledge and Disaster Risk Reduction: Insight Towards Perception, Response, Adaptation and Sustainability (Paperback, 2023)

Part I: Conceptualising Disaster and Risk.- Chapter 1. Hazard and Disaster Perception: Cognition, Response and Adaptation.- Chapter 2. Characterising Hazard and Disaster and Sustainable Development.- Chapter 3. Understanding Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience.- Chapter 4. Traditional management of Disaster: Indigenous Knowledge, Insights and Strategies.- Part II: Approaches to Disaster Management.- Chapter 5. Different types of Risks and Vulnerability.- Chapter 6. Fields of Response to Disaster: Positive Response and Negative Response.- Chapter 7. Disaster Resilience by Indigenous Communities.- Chapter 8. Capacity Building and Community Based Disaster Preparedness.- Part III: Sustainability Through Indigenous Knowledge and Practice.- Chapter 9. Disaster Risk Identification and Mitigation with the help of Traditional Knowledge.- Chapter 10. Disaster Risk Reduction through local Knowledge and practice-case studies.- Chapter 11. Adaptation to different types of Disaster with Integration of local Knowledge-case studies.- Chapter 12. Climate Risk Management with Indigenous Perception and Strategies- case studies.- Part IV: Science-Policy Interface Through Indigenous Knowledge.- Chapter 13. Integration of Indigenous Knowledge in Policy Formulation.- Chapter 14. Insights from Regional and Field Studies on Micro Policies.- Chapter 15. Perspectives from Indigenous Knowledge in Sustainable Development.- Chapter 16. Integration of Perception Studies and Disaster Risks.- Chapter 17. Development of a holistic Regional Disaster Policy Framework based on Indigenous Knowledge.- Chapter 18. Identifying the gaps and Future Scopes in Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience.- Chapter 19. Conclusion.