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Notes
- Summary:
- This ISDR briefing note examines the relationship between climate change adaptation (CCA), disaster risk reduction (DRR), and development. It incorporates information gleaned from empirical evidence, two previous ISDR briefing notes, and the initial findings from the 2011 Global Assessment Report.The document begins with a discussion of how CCA, DRR, and sustainable development are interrelated processes. Having noted that climate change results in gradual changes in regional temperatures, sea level rise, and shifts in precipitation patterns, it suggests that “adapting development to gradual changes in climate averages is a medium to long-term process” (p.2), but that DRR measures can be taken immediately. The document underlines the fact that having higher risks of climate-related hazards does not necessarily mean having extreme risks of disaster. In other words, a community’s level of resilience and capacity determines whether or not hazards become disasters. As a result, disaster preparedness through effective DRR instruments is key to meeting the challenges facing communities threatened by climate-related hazards. In order to reduce and manage climate-related risk, the briefing note urges action along four categories: (i) incorporating risk reduction into development planning, land use, building, and environmental management; (ii) reducing existing risk levels through retrofitting buildings, relocation of settlements, and restoring ecosystems; (iii) applying risk transfer measures such as insurance and catastrophe pools; and (iv) ensuring the development of critical disaster risk management (DRM) components such as effective early warning, preparedness, and response. Thereafter, the document mentions three institutional obstacles to implementing these policies: (i) management and reduction of climate-related risks have not been recognized as central functions of planning and finance ministers; (ii) slow progress in the implementation of international mechanisms for CCA; and (iii) insufficient levels of funding for CCA. In the last part, the Briefing Note makes three recommendations concerning the integration of CCA, DRR, and sustainable development processes: (i) give priority to the assessment of existing risk levels; (ii) give central ministries of planning and finance a major responsibility for climate change adaptation; and (iii) least developing countries, given their low levels of capacity and resilience, should be given added assistance in this process of integration. ( English )
- Subject:
- Climate Change Adaptation ( English )
- Citation/Reference:
- (2010). Strengthening climate change adaptation through effective disaster risk reduction. United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR).
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- Florida International University
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- FI13022746
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