Climate smart disaster risk management
This report presents a new approach to disaster risk management: the 'climate smart disaster risk management' (CSDRM) approach, targeting primarily those working in disaster risk management and climate change adaptation, but also those working more broadly on vulnerability and poverty reduction programmes within or outside government.
It invites the reader to take a step back and consider wider common objectives and opportunities for collaboration across all three pillars of CSDRM: (1) tackle changing disaster risks and uncertainties; (2) enhance adaptive capacity; and (3) address poverty and vulnerability and their structural causes.
It describes: (i) how the regional Mekong River Commission already has elements of CSDRM embedded in its work in the Mekong Delta, undeterred by national boundaries and protecting millions of people from changing patterns of flood and drought; (ii) two programmes in Orissa which contribute in different ways to the overall picture of DRM; (iii) innovative participatory approaches to housing reconstruction in Batticaloa district in Sri Lanka; and (iv) three national project profiles. In conclusion, the report finds that successful application of the CSDRM approach will require systematic investment in people skills, new partnerships, technical collaboration and innovation to achieve the shift needed.
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