Integration of indigenous knowledge and disaster risk reduction: A case study from Baie Martelli, Pentecost Island, Vanuatu
Integration of indigenous knowledge and disaster risk reduction: A case study from Baie Martelli, Pentecost Island, Vanuatu
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土著知识与减少灾害风险的整合：瓦努阿图五旬节岛Baie Martelli 的案例研究
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2012
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P. Nunn
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Rory A. Walshe;P. Nunn
1999 年 11 月 26 日的海啸尽管高度超过 6 m，摧毁了拜马泰利（南太平洋瓦努阿图五旬节岛）顶端的一大片沿海定居点，但仅造成约 300 名受威胁人口中的 5 人死亡，其中大多数人在海浪袭来之前逃往内陆和上坡。这种显着的生存率归功于土著知识（主要以风俗知识的形式）和从三周前在该地区播放的有关海啸的视频中获得的信息。对 55 名经历过这次海啸的人的采访表明，有关拜伊马尔泰利海啸风险和应对措施的土著知识在社区的主要成员中是众所周知的，并且可能在很大程度上负责适当的应对措施。未来减少灾害风险的战略应包括在这些社区维护此类土著知识，并在需要时用通过土著文化和语言过滤的科学知识进行补充。
Despite reaching heights of >6 m and destroying a sizeable coastal settlement at the head of Baie Martelli (Pentecost Island, Vanuatu, South Pacific), the 26 November 1999 tsunamis caused only five fatalities from a threatened population of about 300 persons, most of whom fled inland and upslope before the waves struck. This remarkable survival rate is attributed to both indigenous knowledge, largely in the form of kastom knowledge, and information obtained from a video about tsunamis that was shown in the area three weeks earlier. Interviews with 55 persons who experienced this tsunami suggest that indigenous knowledge about tsunami risk and response in Baie Martelli was well known among key members of the community and was probably largely responsible for the appropriate response. Future strategies for disaster risk reduction should involve maintaining such indigenous knowledge in such communities and supplementing this where needed with scientific knowledge filtered through indigenous culture and language.