In an attempt to improve warning communication and counter the erosion of traditional knowledge and networks, the project contributed to the creation of committee-run social media sites to share traditional knowledge of risk and risk management, disseminate disaster information, and provide grassroots early warning mechanisms.
The erosion of public knowledge is, by definition, an obscure process.
The erosion of traditional knowledge for risk management due to migrations and urbanization is already observable around the world, and bio-indicators are becoming increasingly unreliable due to climate change (Zommers 2014).
Perhaps a way to overcome the challenges illustrated in the three case studies, including the cost issue (for example, in Kenya), the erosion of traditional risk management knowledge (for example, in Hawai'i), or the difficulty to ensure long-term community engagement in the EWS (for example, in Sri Lanka), is through the design of EWS that are truly initiated and run by the beneficiaries.
"In big areas like Devon and Cornwall you see the specialists, for example, but in some other areas there has been an erosion of knowledge".
The erosion of social institutions and informal ways of knowledge transmission may simply reflect value shifts within a society in transition (Reyes-García et al. 2010).
But unfortunately, even as the rich are securely riding this virtuous cycle, the poor are trapped in a vicious one, as a lack of human capital leads to family breakdown, unemployment, dysfunction, and further erosion of knowledge and skills.
Beyond the erosion of personal dignity, Romero says, the knowledge that records of every call people make are being saved will prompt them to think twice before saying or doing something that might make them look bad or before they advocate an unpopular cause.
Their lament of the erosion of this culture, and thereby loss of its knowledge base to a broader society, should have global resonance.
PAUL HEMP: So that erosion of the industrial commons, which is crucial you're saying, party in this informal sharing of knowledge among workers within a particular geographic area, the erosion of that within an industry in a country then can undermine its competitiveness, vis a vis, foreign rivals.
His insider knowledge informs his compelling book about the development of the modern Olympics and the erosion of its ideals by greed, corruption and scandal.
