Phantasmagoria

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Monad

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Bioregional Locality

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Saasthuravatheege Sarumaari

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A long overdue historical demarcation of archipelagos subdued under one nation.

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The crossing of our being and becoming are intrinsically associated with movement and our monadic self. When we perceive through the reception of light, the presencing of space-place becomes a dichotomy. Insofar as we receive light, which lens do we want to perceive through? Do we keep on subjugating to the phantasms by being inattentive to the peripheral surroundings or Is it blandness and banality of our spaces and places which makes our being unnoticeable to this thrownness? Do we even want to elevate our being within the manifestation and gestalt of the realm of physicality? Or can we embrace the space-place within the presencing gestalts and the figure ground? The projection of our thoughts should shape our spaces and places to remind ourselves of our being in the world. The force within us which eject our being to the phantasmagorical realm is only a desire to appear and participate. With this desire can we blur this line between the two realms?

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What is the manifestation of Phantasmagoria?

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Social Aspects of Disaster Resilience in the Context of Maldives - DS5-21

This report is an investigation on the social aspects of disaster resilience, looking in to the relationship of the wealth of the nation, inequality and multidimensional poverty of the Maldives.

Please visit our Issuu publication to view full report.

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Multidimensional Poverty of Maldives

Northern region of Maldives has a dispersed population distribution which has a low human development index with high poverty rate. It is also noticeable that the facilities are less in this region. The Central region has a low inequality rate with a medium income rate along with the lowest multidimensional poverty index. 

 Moreover, the resources allocated for this region are more evenly distributed compared to the North and South of Maldives. MPI is seen to be higher than the central regions index. Even though, the Capital has the highest income rate and has the highest resources the Capital’s inequality is not the lowest.

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Exploration Map for Multidimensional Poverty of Maldives

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Desktop Study on Social Aspects of Disaster Resilience in the Context of Maldives

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Vulnerability Index

Vulnerability

The conditions determined by physical, social, economic, and environmental factors or processes, which increase the susceptibility of a community to the impact of hazards (UN/ISDR, 2004).

Social vulnerability

Moser and Holland (1998) defined it as insecurity of well-being of individuals, households or communities in the face of a changing environment. Adger and Kelly (2000) conclude that vulnerability is "the ability or inability of individuals and social groupings to respond to, in the sense of cope with, recover from or adapt to, any external stress placed on their livelihoods and well-being.

Resilience

The capacity of a system, community or society potentially exposed to hazards to adapt, by resisting or changing in order to reach and maintain an acceptable level of functioning and structure. This is determined by the degree to which the social system is capable of organizing itself to increase its capacity for learning from past disasters for better future protection and to improve risk reduction measures.

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Investigating Multidimensional Poverty of Maldives

What causes nations to recover from disasters? An inquiry into the role of wealth, income inequality, and social welfare provisioning - Vassilis Tselios, Emma L. Tompkins

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Investigation of Social Aspects of Disaster Resilience. 

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Understanding climate-human interactions in small island developing states (SIDS): Implications for future sustainability

“Many local methods have become casualties of globalization.

There is good reason to try and conserve traditional knowledge in many rural/peripheral island contexts, even the stories, myths that may have been passed down for generations because this represents an accumulation of wisdom over hundreds, sometimes thousands of years that often captures the environmental and cultural nuances of living in particular places

Roots of modern globalization took hold on most oceanic islands 150-100 years ago and initiated livelihood changes that became more dominant subsequently, a reliance on cheap imported store-bought food is now widespread on many more populous islands with agriculture and fisheries often sidelined.

Resilience of many Island Societies is evident from their unbroken residence comparatively small and remote ocean bounded landmass, often for a millennia and has its core a communal approach to sustainability.”  Patrick Nunn, Rosalyn Kumar.

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Desktop study pin ups revealed 6 parts, we've decided to use it as content and structure it as:

World view - Questioning What is Disaster Management? and a short introduction and a summary of a research publication by Vassilis Tselios, Emma L. Tompkins "What causes nations to recover from disasters? An inquiry into the role of wealth, income inequality, and social welfare provisioning." Published on International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.

Timeline - Key disaster events of Maldives

Economy - A snapshot of Maldives Economy

MPI/HDI - Mapping visualization of Multidimensional Poverty and Human Development Index of Maldives.

Relief Tsunami - A short historical snapshot of events of the 2004 Tsunami

MPI/HDI/GINI - Overlay visualization mapping of GINI index, Income in relationship to the geographical distribution of Human Development Index and Multidimensional Poverty Index