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Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies and Risk Management Practices: critical elements for adaptation to climate change
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2008This paper presents the risk-related elements referred to in the Bali Action Plan, namely disaster reduction strategies and risk management including risk sharing and transfer mechanisms.DocumentDisaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in the Pacific: the challenge of integration
University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australian Tsunami Research Centre & Natural Hazards Research Laboratory (ATRC-NHRL), 2010This paper presents the integration of DRR and CCA initiatives in the pacific community, and draws upon the knowledge and insight of key stakeholders from multiple backgrounds to develop an understanding of the current status of DRR and CCA in the region.DocumentPolicy arena disaster risk reduction or climate change adaptation: are we reinventing the wheel?
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2010This paper explores the differences and similarities between Disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) through analysing climate-related DRR in Papua New Guinea (PNG) within the context of wider development policies. It notes that more similarities than differences exist between CCA and DRR, but DRR presents advantages for development policy and practice that CCA does not.DocumentDisaster Risk Reduction, climate change adaptation and human security. A commissioned report for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Global Environmental Change and Human Security International Project Office, 2008The relationship between climate change and security is a key concern among governments and international organisations. Security concerns include the potential for conflict over natural resources, population displacement, migration, and humanitarian disasters due to extreme climatic events.DocumentAdaptation toolkit. Integrating adaptation to climate change into secure livelihoods
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2009The existing poverty and the likelihood of severe effects of climate change in developing countries highlights the critical importance of adaptation to its impacts. Without substantial intervention, the likelihood of reaching global and specific national poverty reduction objectives will be severely hampered.DocumentAdaptation to climate change: linking disaster risk reduction and insurance
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2010Development gains are increasingly at risk from climate change among other pressures. Adverse changes are already being observed in the amount, intensity, frequency and type of precipitation, resulting in drought, floods and tropical storms. Climate change threatens to undermine poorer countries to absorb loss and recover from disaster impacts.DocumentAddressing the challenge: recommendations and quality criteria for linking disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change
PreventionWeb, 2007Climate change is a fact and a threat to human society due to increases in temperature, variations in precipitation and intensive weather related extreme events. These call for the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR). This study addresses the urgent need to link DRR and CCA and reflects on the opportunities and limitations.DocumentA climate risk management approach to disaster reduction and adaptation to climate change
United Nations Development Programme, 2002The relationship between climate change and security is a key concern among governments and international organisations. Security concerns include the potential for conflict over natural resources, population displacement, migration and humanitarian disasters due to extreme climate events.DocumentDisaster risk management in a changing climate. Discussion paper prepared for the World Conference on Distaster Reduction on behalf of the Vulnerability and Adaptation Resource Group (VARG)
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2005Climate change is a reality, not a distant possibility in the future. Weather-related disasters are exerting an increasing toll on developing and developed countries, destroying lives and livelihoods and hampering development processes. The World Conference on Disaster Reduction is a testimony that international cooperation is needed to prevent natural hazards from translating into disasters.DocumentClimate adaptation as risk management: limits and lessons from disaster risk reduction
International Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, 2009Adapting to climate change requires that risk management be integrated into development planning and practices. This paper identifies lessons and limits for climate change adaptation from disaster risk reduction.Pages