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What is Tradition

Global Perspectives on Victimization Analysis and Prevention
The transmission of norms and values from one generation to the other.
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Climate Change: An Appraisal of Vulnerability, Victimization, and Adaptation
Johnson Oluwole Ayodele (Lagos State University, Nigeria)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1112-1.ch001
Abstract
In combination with ignorance, incompetence, and poor governance, climate change has become a serious threat to the greatness of Africa. Beyond that, climate change poses a problem to global security but has deeper impacts on the world's most vulnerable populations. This chapter reviews archival information to analyse the vulnerability of Africa vis-à-vis climate change, for which it is partly a cause. Also, it assesses the victimization and Africans' adaptation practices. The chapter argues that entrenched poverty, traditional practices, and lack of faith in research discoveries increase the exposure of Africans to climate change and intensify their inability to respond competently to its inherent victimization. To boost her adaptation, this chapter suggests that Africa should reinvent social alignment with its communities and build climate-friendly attitudes to prepare for environmental calamities that may arise from climate variation.
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Indigenous Knowledge Intelligence and African Development
The handing down orally of beliefs, customs, stories, legends, folklore, rituals, songs, art, and even laws from generation to generation.
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Ecotourism as a Sustainable and Active Citizenship Approach
Tradition can be understood as a belief or behaviour (folk custom) that persists from the past to the present, accepted by those who receives it and who in turn will pass it on to the next generation. It has a symbolic meaning or special significance.
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The Presence of Religious Symbols in Romanian Public Schools: Ethical Disputes and Legislative Interpretations
A long-established custom or belief that has been passed on from one generation to another.
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Reading Between the Lines: Innovation Strategies in Small and Medium-Sized Family Firms – An Exploratory Study
Embedded behavior, values, processes, etc. that characterize communities living in a specific area.
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