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- Summary:
- This review focuses on disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in the management of climate-related risks within urban contexts. Its authors discuss various areas of mutuality, conflict, and potential synergy between CCA and DRR. Improved understanding of potential linkages between the two could promote the development of more comprehensive solutions for dealing with these emergent risks. What brings DRR and CCA together is common emphasis on analyzing underlying causes of vulnerability and integrating these understandings into efforts to reduce the impacts of, and build resilience to, climate-related disasters. As urban areas become more vulnerable to the vagaries of a progressively more volatile climate, the work of these two fields are increasingly intersecting. But this budding interaction has not been without conflict in terms of territoriality, competing nomenclatures, and differences in institutional arrangements. Despite these tensions, the authors outline three areas of overlap between CCA and DRR. The first is a focus on identifying climatic risks. Climate change involves shifting temperatures and rainfall patterns, increased frequency and intensity of climate-related hazards, new hazards in places they had not previously been, and thus changing risk profiles. Climate change thus makes analysis of historical climate conditions less relevant as a predictor of future climate trends. The second is an emphasis on assessing climatic risks by determining impact parameters. Processes such as economic globalization, international migration, and increased urbanization interact with climate change to impact vulnerability, often leading to overlapping and even competing disasters. The third area of focus is on responding to climatic risks. Dealing with climate risks from either an exclusively DRR perspective or a CCA perspective simply will not work. The authors contend that CCA and DRR work best when integrated. CCA can augment the effectiveness of DRR by providing models on changing exposures and vulnerabilities, connecting DRR to policy discourses that encourage recognition outside of periods of disaster, while the traditional strengths of DRR will be fundamental to effective CCA. Its probabilistic risk modeling, risk and vulnerability mapping, response and recovery planning, well-developed platforms and coordination mechanisms across levels of government, and ability to grab the attention of policy-makers and the public, are all elements that CCA can benefit greatly from. ( English,English )
- Subject:
- Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
- Citation/Reference:
- Solecki, W., Leichenko, R., O’Brien, K. (2011). Climate change adaptation strategies and disaster risk reduction in cities: connections, contentions, and synergies. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 3: 135-141.
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- Source Institution:
- Florida International University
- Rights Management:
- Copyright © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
- Resource Identifier:
- FI13071008
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