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Cultural Resilience—The Roles of Cultural Traditions in Sustaining Rural Livelihoods: A Case Study from Rural Kandyan Villages in Central Sri Lanka
Daskon, Chandima Dilhani - In: Sustainability 2 (2010) 4, pp. 1080-1100
aim of this paper is to examine the roles played by culture in relation to livelihood resilience, posing the question of … political changes. Rural Kandyan communities afford us a good example of “cultural resilience”, relying on longstanding cultural … traditions for their survival. This paper shows how culture and traditional values strengthen livelihood resilience and argues …
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A Climate Change Adaptation Planning Process for Low-Lying, Communities Vulnerable to Sea Level Rise
Barron, Sara; Canete, Glenis; Carmichael, Jeff; … - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 9, pp. 2176-2208
While the province of British Columbia (BC), Canada, provides guidelines for flood risk management, it is local governments’ responsibility to delineate their own flood vulnerability, assess their risk, and integrate these with planning policies to implement adaptive action. However, barriers...
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