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Notes
- Summary:
- In this briefing note the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) highlights the links between climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR), underscores how approaches from the latter can inform efforts towards the former. According to the ISDR, disasters are not solely the result of natural hazards, but rather the product of their interaction with exposed, vulnerable, and poorly prepared populations. Understanding the linkages between CCA and DRR is critical because climate change will likely lead to larger and more frequent disasters, and the strategies already developed by DRR practitioners will be critical to addressing these newly discovered threats. The ISDR contends that climate change will affect disaster risks in two ways. First, climate change is likely to produce more disasters by increasing the number of weather and climate hazards. Between 1988 and 2007, 76% of all disasters were hydrological, meteorological, or climatological, causing 45% of deaths and 79% of economic losses associated with natural hazards. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has projected that by 2100 the global average surface warming will increase by 1.1 to 6.4 degrees Celsius, impacting a number of factors likely to increase the potential for disaster. It predicts sea level rise between 18 and 59 cm; increases in the frequency of heat waves and drought in some areas, with heavy rainfall in others; and with higher sea surface temperatures, the IPCC believes that the frequency and intensity of tropical storms such as typhoons and hurricanes will increase as well. Secondly, climate change is likely to increase vulnerabilities to natural hazards by causing greater environmental degradation, reducing water and food supplies, and negatively impacting livelihoods. The poorest segments of the most underdeveloped countries will be especially vulnerable to negative impacts. These populations tend to live in areas of high-risk, typically lack property insurance, access to public services, and are more exposed to the diseases likely to become prevalent as climate change continues. The document presents a number of practical means by which DRR and CCA can be integrated. In agriculture, crop varieties and techniques that account for droughts and pests produced by new climate conditions are suggested. It calls for both protecting water supply sources from disaster and climate change through measures such as protecting water supply infrastructure, water harvesting, flood ponds, and improving general watershed and water resource management. Environmental management is another area where integration is critical. ( English )
- Subject:
- Environment ( English )
- Subject:
- General Risk Reduction ( English )
- Citation/Reference:
- (2008). Climate change and disaster risk reduction. United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR).
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- Florida International University
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- FI13022740
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