Examining linkages between disaster risk reduction and livelihoods: literature review
The purpose of this review is to establish baseline definitions and trends of disaster risk reduction (DRR) programming, review existing literature and suggest gaps in knowledge that will help to focus the content of the subsequent field case studies. It first gives an overview of DRR and its basic dimensions, from categories of risk to context and populations. It then presents a recommended DRR framework that encompasses the different components of DRR and allows for better standardization of methodology as well as a clearer understanding of the possible gaps surrounding DRR programming.
The next section concludes with recommendations on issues that should be given greater attention in the DRR literature, research, and programming. Finally, an appendix of several topics that are relevant to thinking about DRR – migration, urbanization, the poverty trap and financial capital, microfinance, remittances, insurance, social and political capital, gender, indigenous knowledge, DRR frameworks, and conflict and the multi-hazard environment – is given as well as recommended respective readings.
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