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Disaster event: Window of opportunity to implement global disaster policies?
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013)
Disasters have been predominantly construed as destructive events causing loss of lives, livelihoods and hard-won development. Much less attention has been paid to the constructive nature of disasters as creating potential ...
Perceptions of water access in the context of climate change by rural households in the Seke and Murewa districts, Zimbabwe
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013)
The objective of the study was to assess perceptions of rural household heads with regard to various aspects of water access and climate change, and to evaluate whether there were significant differences in perceptions of ...
Perceptions on climate change and its impact on livelihoods in Hwange district, Zimbabwe
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2014)
This study investigated perceptions of rural communities on climate change and its impacts on livelihoods. The research was conducted in the semi-arid Hwange district in Matebelel and North province of Zimbabwe. The ...
Challenges faced by rural people in mitigating the effects of climate change in the Mazungunye communal lands, Zimbabwe
(OASIS, 2019)
The phenomenon of climate change is one of the most contested and debated concepts globally. Some governments still deny the existence of climate change and its impact on rural–urban areas around the world. However, the ...
Adapting to climate change: reflections of peasant farmers in Mashonaland West Province of Zimbabwe
(OASIS, 2019)
Climate change is projected to have negative impacts on agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa and this is likely to continue for decades, unless adaptation measures are implemented. The changing climate is a global ...
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 ...
Initiatives to boost resilience towards El Niño in Zimbabwe’s rural communities
(OASIS, 2022)
Most Zimbabweans living in rural areas experience acute shortages of water for domestic and
agricultural purposes. Household poverty amongst rural inhabitants is also increasing because
of factors such as El Niño-induced ...
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 adaptation of a macroscale methodology to assess the direct economic losses caused by Tropical Cyclone Idai in Zimbabwe
(OASIS, 2022)
Tropical cyclones are among the costliest disasters in the world, with reported losses amounting
to billions of US dollars on an annual basis. To reduce the impact of disasters including
cyclones, Zimbabwe signed the ...
Developing a community-centred malaria early warning system based on indigenous knowledge: Gwanda District, Zimbabwe
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)
Malaria continues to be a major public health problem in Sub-Saharan Africa despite efforts that have been made to prevent and control the disease for many decades. The knowledge on prediction and occurrence of the disease ...