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- Title
Reducing hazard vulnerability: towards a common approach between disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation.
- Authors
Thomalla, Frank; Downing, Tom; Spanger-Siegfried, Erika; Han, Guoyi; Rockström, Johan
- Abstract
Over the past few decades, four distinct and largely independent research and policy communities—disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, environmental management and poverty reduction—have been actively engaged in reducing socio-economic vulnerability to natural hazards. However, despite the significant efforts of these communities, the vulnerability of many individuals and communities to natural hazards continues to increase considerably. In particular, it is hydro-meteorological hazards that affect an increasing number of people and cause increasingly large economic losses. Arising from the realisation that these four communities have been largely working in isolation and enjoyed only limited success in reducing vulnerability, there is an emerging perceived need to strengthen significantly collaboration and to facilitate learning and information exchange between them. This article examines key communalities and differences between the climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction communities, and proposes three exercises that would help to structure a multi-community dialogue and learning process.
- Subjects
RISK assessment of climate change; EMERGENCY management; HAZARD mitigation; ENVIRONMENTAL risk assessment; ENVIRONMENTAL management; ACCLIMATIZATION; NATURAL disasters; SUSTAINABLE development; ENVIRONMENTAL engineering
- Publication
Disasters, 2006, Vol 30, Issue 1, p39
- ISSN
0361-3666
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9523.2006.00305.x