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evolving. We believe that the scheme presented in this paper helps in realizing learning and
evolving group of community that will be ready to absorb and address uncertainty in decision
making in local risk reduction.
Acknowledgements
The work published in this paper was supported by the Japanese Society for Promotion of
Science (JSPS) through Postdoctoral Fellowship and research grant to the primary author at
Kyoto University. We acknowledge the stimulating discussions with Prof Ian Davis, Affiliate
Professor, Oxford Books University that helped us enrich the preliminary draft. We also
acknowledge learning experience of working with diverse stakeholders including Oxfam-Vietnam,
IFRC Regional Delegation in South Asia, and local governments in Japan and India that helped
us in enriching our understanding in this subject.
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