Climate change and disasters are serious risk to poverty reduction and erodes wealth built by individuals and nations. Nearly half of the climate related disasters happen in Asia and unless adapted to venerable impacts, people and nations will lose wealth and have to create it again. The ...
A seminal policy year for development and sustainability occurs in 2015 due to three parallel processes that seek long-term agreements for climate change, the Sustainable Development Goals, and disaster risk reduction. Little reason exists to separate them, since all three examine and aim to deal ...
Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) are pressing fields of action for scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers. The integration of CCA into DRR promotes a sustainable level of wellbeing for, and increases the resilience of, communities coping with multiple hazards. ...
Increasing learning opportunities and teaching capacities in higher education (HE) institutions in the domain of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) is a key pre-requisite not only to enhance individual and collective knowledge, but also to forge resilient societies. How...
Climate changeAdaptationSouth and Southeast AsiaSource No. 14/2010, edited by Neysa Setiadi, J枚rn Birkmann and Philip Buckle, provides a compilation of joint papers focusing on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA). Case Studies and conceptual discussion papers...
Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction: Issues and ChallengesCliveUniversityM.J.UniversityWarrenUniversityMCB UP LtdProperty Management
A seminal policy year for development and sustainability occurs in 2015 due to three parallel processes that seek long-term agreements for climate change, the Sustainable Development Goals, and disaster risk reduction.Little reason exists to separate them, since all three examine and aim to deal wit...
"There is no time to waste. The current uncertainties around our world must not be a barrier to action. Delay is not an option. We can no longer afford delaying investments in disaster risk reduction. The systemic challenges of the 21st century require systemic thinking, coordination and respon...
Agrarian and poor communities in general in the Asia-Pacific region are highly vulnerable to climate change. Effective reduction of vulnerabilities requires aligning sustainable development (SD), climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) initiatives. Insurance has been increasingly...
Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Natural Resources Judi Wakhungu said National Climate Change Action Plan 2018-2022 will help mainstream climate change and disaster risk reduction actions in development programs. "We have come face to face with the unprecedented challenge of climate change impacts...