Integrating disaster risk management into climate change adaptation
AIMED AT: Disaster Risk management practitioner: specifically those DRM practitioners who are government officials and have the role of responsibility to manage or reduce disaster risks PURPOSE: The handbooks aims to provide advice to the DRM practitioner on both strategic and practical options for operational implementation of DRM within a selection of development processes and tools. GEOGRAPHICAL AREA: Asia and the Pacific TECHNICAL AREA: Integrating Disaster Risk Management into climate change adaptation BASIC STRUCTURE: Managing climate-related disaster risks includes preparation for extreme events and climate variability potentially arising out of climate changes. DRM and CCA have very similar aims in terms of promoting resilience in the face of hazards. They both focus on reducing vulnerability by improving the ways to anticipate, cope with and recover from their impacts. However, DRM and CCA are not the same as each field has its own concerns, with DRM looking to manage risks from all hazards and CCA looking to help societal systems and undertakings adapt to a changing climate. DRM tends to be looked after by civil defense authorities, while CCA tends to be looked after by ministries of environment. The two fields overlap in a common area, as both are concerned reducing vulnerability, with monitoring climate-related hazards and reducing exposure to these, and raising societal capacities to manage climate risks.
Integrating disaster risk management into climate change adaptation.pdf
