Browsing Jàmbá: 2019 Volume 11 No 1 by Issue Date
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Factors influencing the resilience of smallholder livestock farmers to agricultural drought in South Africa: implication for adaptive capabilities
(OASIS, 2019)The aim of this study was to determine the factors that influence the resilience of smallholder farming households in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. This study utilised primary data collected from 207 smallholder ... -
Disability and disaster risk reduction as an incongruent matrix: lessons from rural Zimbabwe
(OASIS, 2019)The policy thrust of disaster risk reduction initiatives is in many instances tailored towards able-bodied people. This is at the expense of those challenged in many facets such as physically, mentally and other forms of ... -
Household disaster awareness and preparedness: a case study of flood hazards in Asamankese in the West Akim Municipality of Ghana
(OASIS, 2019)Increasing disasters and their associated devastating impacts on society have called into question the capacity of countries to address disaster occurrences. Hitherto, primary disaster management institutions have addressed ... -
Impacts of flood disasters in Nigeria: a critical evaluation of health implications and management
(OASIS, 2019)Floods lead to tremendous losses of property, infrastructure, business and increased risk of diseases. Floods are also the most frequent natural disasters, affecting over 2.8 billion people in the world and causing over ... -
Coping and adaptation mechanisms employed by sub-Saharan African migrant women in South Africa
(OASIS, 2019)This article assesses the socio-economic coping and adaptation mechanisms employed by sub-Saharan African migrant women in South Africa using a survey and multi-attribute contingent ratings. The socio-economic and adaptation ... -
Communities’ perceptions of health hazards induced by climate change in Mount Darwin district, Zimbabwe
(OASIS, 2019)Climate change contributes toward many global challenges, such as increases in diseases in some communities, thereby accelerating health hazards to disasters. Establishing the extent to which local communities understand ... -
An exploration of the tractability of the objectivist frame of disaster risk in policy implementation in Zimbabwe
(OASIS, 2019)Despite the growing evidence pointing towards disaster risk as a social construction, the objectivist frame still dominates the conceptual frameworks constructed around disaster risk in Zimbabwe. As disasters continue to ... -
Greenhouse gas emissions as sustainability indicators in agricultural sectors’ adaptation to climate change: policy implications
(OASIS, 2019)Effective adaptation action to climate change requires a balance between reducing vulnerabilities and managing risks. However, in most adaptation actions, risks such as greenhouse gas emissions, and those that impose ... -
Sustainability of food production support services offered by Sustainable Agriculture Trust to subsistence farmers in Bikita District, Zimbabwe
(OASIS, 2019)In developing countries, food production challenges continue to persist, despite interventions at household levels such as input provision to address farmers’ resource constraints and training in conservation farming to ... -
Traditional knowledge system in disaster risk reduction: exploration, acknowledgement and proposition
(OASIS, 2019)The last 60 years have witnessed advanced technological innovation for disaster risk reduction (DRR) with the invention of high-resolution satellite imagery, digital cartography and modern engineering building techniques ... -
Earthquake loss estimation of residential buildings in Bantul regency, Indonesia
(OASIS, 2019)Bantul regency in 2006 had experienced considerable earthquake and suffered many casualties. The factors such as high population density and lack of seismic design of residential buildings in Bantul besides its location ... -
Fundamentals of safety hazards: a scientific perspective
(OASIS, 2019)Current theory on safety hazards and the origin of safety risk is often unstructured, misleading and ambiguous. Essentially, it is ambiguous, as definitions and descriptions refrain from stating a formal common basis upon ... -
Application of livelihood vulnerability index to assess risks for farmers in the Sukoharjo Regency and Klaten Regency, Indonesia
(OASIS, 2019)This research tried to compare the level of farmers’ livelihood vulnerability to flooding in Sukoharjo and Klaten. Farmers are the most susceptible caused by climate change. The data used in this research are primary data, ... -
Participatory capacities and vulnerabilities assessment: towards the realisation of community-based early warning system for deep-seated landslides
(OASIS, 2019)Existing frameworks of community-based early warning systems (CBEWS) lack focus on its actual implementation. Furthermore, they do not describe how a top-down early warning system (EWS) can be transformed into a CBEWS. ... -
Impact of climate change on primary agriculture, water sources and food security in Western Cape, South Africa
(OASIS, 2019)Climate change is undoubtedly one of the biggest crises that humanity is facing today. There is a robust scientific consensus that human-induced climate change is occurring not only in the Western Cape but around the world. ... -
Erratum: vulnerability of Southern Afar pastoralists to climate variability and change, Ethiopia
(OASIS, 2019)The present study was carried out in the Southern Afar region in Ethiopia to assess the vulnerability of pastoral communities to climate change and variability. A household questionnaire survey was employed to collect data ... -
Estimating damage costs of flooding on small- and medium-sized enterprises in Kigali, Rwanda
(OASIS, 2019)In the past, Kigali has frequently experienced heavy rain events. These have often led to flooding, which also affected businesses. In the face of climate change, such events can become more frequent and can threaten ... -
Private water distribution as a potential everyday risk: the case of Goba, Dar es Salaam
(OASIS, 2019)A large number of peri-urban settlements in developing countries, including Goba in Tanzania, fall short of government supplied water. The inability of the Government to budget and prioritise its budget poses a serious ... -
How to improve public participation in disaster risk management: a case study of Buein Zahra, a small city in Iran
(OASIS, 2019)Identifying and providing basic solutions using a collaborative approach in earthquake stricken cities of Iran has not yet been addressed. This article focuses on an area of practice and views disaster risk management from ... -
Flood vulnerability level analysis as a hydrological disaster mitigation effort in Krueng Jreue Sub-Watershed, Aceh Besar, Indonesia
(OASIS, 2019)The flood phenomenon in the Krueng Jreue Sub-Watershed, Aceh Besar, Indonesia, in recent years indicates biophysical damage to the land. Floods are influenced by factors from biophysical conditions of the land and high ...