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SUMMARY:Persistence and Change in Local Knowledge in Dealing with Natural Hazards in the Philippines
LOCATION:Room 1.204
DESCRIPTION:People deal with hazards in their environment in various ways t
 hat they consider to be meaningful and have been helped them overcome these
  hazards through several encounters in the past. In many instances in their
  past a group of people have engaged with particularly damaging hazards usi
 ng tried and tested ways that have saved their lives. Such ways form part o
 f a group of people’s local knowledge and practices. Local knowledge and pr
 actices include worldviews that explain the occurrence of a natural hazard,
  predicting its occurrence and potential impacts as well as several ways of
  effectively stemming the potential damage these hazards can bring. Two dom
 inant views regarding how people engage with hazards are presented by Olive
 r- Smith and Hoffman (2002) and Slater (2014). Oliver-Smith and Hoffman bel
 ieved that when faced with a hazard, people will “recant or reinvent their 
 cultural system”. Slater on the other hand, contended that several disaster
  ethnographies have shown persistence in local knowledge and practices that
  people systematically hold on to familiar “cultural and social schema” in 
 adapting to hazards in a given environment. Studies have shown that in seve
 ral communities in the Philippines, people have dealt with natural hazards 
 with both persistence and change in terms of their local knowledge and prac
 tices. This panel delves into local explanatory models for a natural hazard
 , signs found in nature that predicted the onset of a hazard, as well as th
 e practice of religious rites and rituals in peoples’ attempts to stem grea
 t devastation because of a hazard. Through the various studies in this pane
 l it is hoped that a deeper understanding of the processes involved in pers
 istence and change in local knowledge and practices in the context of resil
 ience as people engage with natural hazards in the Philippines will be deve
 loped.
URL:https://euroseas2019.org/program/panels/persistence-and-change-in-local-knowledge-in-dealing-with-natural-hazards-in-the-philippines
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