The Kiriwong community in southern Thailand is confident of handling climate change, thanks to lessons learned from a natural disaster that hit its village 25 years ago. In 1988, a massive landslide triggered by floodwaters cascading down from southern Thailand’s high mountains hit the foothills where the Kiriwong village of about 400 habitants was located. The whole village went under mud that uprooted trees and killed at least 13 people. The Kiriwong were left to rebuild their agricultural economy from scratch – but rebuild they did, defying government suggestions that they relocate the village to a safer place.
http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/06/disasters-hold-climate-change-lessons-for-thais/
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