Natural hazards and climate change in Kenya: Minimizing the impacts on vulnerable communities through early warning systems

Reducing Disaster: Early Warning Systems for Climate Change

Volumn 9789401785983, Issue , 2013, Pages 355-375

  Senaratna, Nilmi ^a   Baudoin, Marie Ange ^b   Oluoko Odingo, Alice A ^c   Ajuang, Linda ^c   Wepukhulu, Daniel W ^d   Mwadali, Ayub S ^d  

^a UNITED NATIONS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^d KENYA METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Community; Early Warning; Flood; Kenya; Participatory Rural Appraisal; Social media; Vulnerable Groups

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISASTERS; HAZARDS; LOSSES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

COMMUNITY; EARLY WARNING; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; ECONOMIC LOSS; KENYA; NATURAL HAZARD; PARTICIPATORY RURAL APPRAISALS; SOCIAL MEDIA; VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES; VULNERABLE GROUPS;

FLOODS;

EID: 84931402984     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-8598-3_19     Document Type: Chapter

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