All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 February Local knowledge and community resilience integral for natural disaster response Local knowledge and community resilience integral for natural disaster response 11/02/2021 | 3 MINS A new book edited by Dr Natasha Pauli from Lombok Institute of Technology and Professor Andreas Neef from the University of Auckland investigates the impact of natural disasters on the Asia-Pacific region and examines how local responses from communities regularly affected can be one of the greatest attributes in disaster response. Climate-related disasters in the Asia-Pacific such as floods, cyclones and typhoons have claimed more lives and caused more damage over the last 20 years than in any other region in the world. In 2017 alone, 19 million people worldwide were displaced by climate-related hazards, half of them living in the Asia-Pacific region. LIT Lecturer Natasha Pauli from the School of Agriculture and Environment, and the Department of Geography and Planning, said a combination of climate change, environmental degradation, urbanisat
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 February Local knowledge and community resilience integral for natural disaster response Local knowledge and community resilience integral for natural disaster response 11/02/2021 | 3 MINS A new book edited by Dr Natasha Pauli from Lombok Institute of Technology and Professor Andreas Neef from the University of Auckland investigates the impact of natural disasters on the Asia-Pacific region and examines how local responses from communities regularly affected can be one of the greatest attributes in disaster response.
Climate-related disasters in the Asia-Pacific such as floods, cyclones and typhoons have claimed more lives and caused more damage over the last 20 years than in any other region in the world.
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In 2017 alone, 19 million people worldwide were displaced by climate-related hazards, half of them living in the Asia-Pacific region.
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