Jàmbá: 2011 Volume 3 No 2
Contents
25 April 2011
Articles
- Urban and rural dimensions in post-disaster adjustment challenges in selected communities in Kwara State, Nigeria / Adebimpe, RU
- Invasive plant species and their disaster-effects in dry tropical forests and rangelands of Kenya and Tanzania / Obiri, JF
- The vulnerable state of the Ghana coast: the case of Faana-Bortianor / Oteng-Ababio, M; Owusu, K & Addo, KA
- Challenges to disaster risk reduction: a study of stakeholders’ perspectives in Imizamo Yethu, South Africa / Roth, A & Becker, P
- Field note from Pakistan floods: preventing future flood disasters / Oxley, M
- Corruption: the hidden perpetrator of under-development and vulnerability to natural hazards and disasters / Lewis, J
Recent Submissions
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Corruption: the hidden perpetrator of under-development and vulnerability to natural hazards and disasters
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2011)My lecture is based upon a fully referenced paper but it is not an academic paper that contains evidence from which it draws conclusions. It’s in the nature of corruption that there is little evidence and there are no ... -
Field note from Pakistan floods: preventing future flood disasters
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2011)Unusually heavy monsoon rains in Northern Pakistan have caused disproportionate levels of extreme flooding and unprecedented flood losses across the entire Indus River basin. Extensive land use changes and environmental ... -
Challenges to disaster risk reduction: a study of stakeholders’ perspectives in Imizamo Yethu, South Africa
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2011)South Africa is a complex and dynamic society, with overwhelming and increasing problems with disaster risk in the vulnerable urban communities in and around its rapidly growing metropolitan centres. The purpose of this ... -
The vulnerable state of the Ghana coast: the case of Faana-Bortianor
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2011)Coastal communities worldwide are becoming increasingly vulnerable to a wide range of potential hazards including shoreline erosion and coastal resource degradation. The problem is exacerbated due to rapid urbanization and ... -
Invasive plant species and their disaster-effects in dry tropical forests and rangelands of Kenya and Tanzania
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2011)Invasive plants are a hazard in the tropical dry forests and rangelands of East Africa. Although often not reported, they have increasingly created disasters that have affected the environment and socio-economic wellbeing ... -
Urban and rural dimensions in post-disaster adjustment challenges in selected communities in Kwara State, Nigeria
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2011)Human populations are exposed to climate change directly through changing weather patterns as manifested in the more frequent extreme events and indirectly through changes in ecosystem functions. Rainstorm ...
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