Rethinking climate-security narratives: integrating systemic disaster risk management in development
This report examines climate-security and disaster-security narratives and identifies a number of specific shortcomings in them that have implications for how disaster risk management and climate change adaptation are promoted in fragile settings. Addressing systemic risks requires interrogating chains of causality leading back to more fundamental, structural drivers of vulnerability and fragility.
Prevailing climate and security narratives tend to emphasise the hazard component of risk and ignore structural and proximate drivers of fragility and vulnerability. When these drivers are ignored, development, climate change, humanitarian and other policies and programmes can increase fragility, vulnerability and conflict risk. Transformative, just and integrated ‘all-hazard’ approaches to systemic risk management are required in development, humanitarian and other policies and programmes.
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