Gender has received increased attention in disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies and practices over the past three decades. However, a critical analysis raises number of questions: to gender brought transformative change lives people, especially women sexual minorities all their diversity? To what extent inclusion perspective DRR challenged root causes vulnerability marginalization? Do current...

Abstract This research is aimed to discuss the implementation of Autonomous Robot as Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) Technology approaches in facing this current epidemic outbreak. The and emerging environment which technologies has transformed way we live work. Since Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 9): Industry, Innovation Infrastructure build resilient infrastructures, promote inclusive...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and/or impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) are associated with increased risk of mortality and prevalent ischemic heart disease (IHD) and to analyze if the increased risk of death is dependent on subsequent development of diabetes in Pima Indians. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 2,993 Pima Indians aged >or=35 years were included...

Abstract The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015−2030’s (SFDRR) framing moved away from disaster risk as a natural phenomenon to the examination of inequality and injustice at root human vulnerability hazards disasters. Yet, its achievements have not seriously challenged long-established capitalist systems oppression that hinder development leading creation. This article is an exp...

In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, small-scale and everyday disasters are a manifestation of the multidimensional inequalities faced by residents informal settlements. The co-production knowledge about disaster other risks, bringing together with local NGOs government representatives, is potential entry point for addressing inequalities. This paper reports on such process in two settlements, carried o...

Abstract The Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, a regional economic body comprised of 16 member states, is one our planet’s most vulnerable regions to natural hazards, and has complex disaster risk profile. region sustained several disasters over the past decades. These events include annual floods in 2004–2019 extreme droughts (1990–1993); other climate-induced disasters, su...