In all areas of academic or practical work related to disaster risk, climate change and
development more generally, community and its adjunct community-based have become the …

Disaster-related internal displacement is on the rise in many countries and is increasingly
becoming an urban phenomenon. For many people, as in the case of the earthquake …

Background Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive students at a rural university in
Limpopo province are followed-up according to the national guidelines for the treatment of …

People experience disasters very differently. Conflicts about a» correct «interpretation of the
risks might arise. The side-by-side of different truths lead to people seeing mismanagement …

Benedikt M. Orlowski, born in 1979, works as a research associate at the Department for
Urban Research and Statistics in Nürnberg. The human geographer did his doctorate at the …

Zusammenfassung Diese Arbeit untersucht, welchen Beitrag das Konzept der ‚lokalen
Risikomündigkeit 'für die Erforschung des Umgangs mit Naturgefahren leistet. Der …

The pragmatist concept of praxis involves more than conventionalised practices. It also
regards performative dynamics which derive from the fact that practices actually never are …

In recent years, many regions in sub-Saharan Africa have experienced growing
contestations of existing livelihood practices and massive environmental change. This has …