Addressing the Challenge: Recommendations and Quality Criteria for Linking Disaster Risk Reduction and Adaptation to Climate Change

Cover......Page 1
Acknowledgments......Page 2
Table of Contents......Page 3
Preface......Page 4
Foreword......Page 5
Executive Summary......Page 6
Key Recommendations......Page 8
Looking over the Edge – Introduction......Page 10
Vulnerability......Page 12
Coping and Adaptation......Page 13
Recommendations......Page 14
Introduction......Page 15
National Efforts......Page 16
Vietnam: The Challenge of integrating DRR and CCA......Page 18
Integrating DRR and CCA in Indonesia......Page 21
Disaster Risk Management related to heavy Rainfall: Case Study Agüita de la Perdiz, Chile......Page 23
Livelihood adaptation to climate variability and change (LACC) in drought-prone areas of Bangladesh......Page 25
Conclusions......Page 28
Why have we not come further? Barriers and Challenges......Page 29
Temporal Scale Challengeswhen linking DRR and CCA......Page 30
Functional Scale Challengeswhen linking DRR and CCA......Page 31
Normative Dimension......Page 32
Knowledge Dimension......Page 33
Where do we go from here? Recommendations and Quality Criteria......Page 35
Promotion of Cross-Sectoraland Multi-Scale Approaches......Page 36
Quality and Evaluation Criteria:......Page 37
Recommendations regarding Knowledge......Page 38
Quality and Evaluation Criteria......Page 40
Recommendations regarding Norms......Page 41
Recommendations regarding Funding......Page 42
Quality and Evaluation Criteria......Page 43
Promotion of the Potential ofDRR for CCA and long-termSustainability......Page 44
Recommendations......Page 45
Special Recommendationsfor COP 15 in Copenhagen......Page 46
Appendices
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List of Abbreviations......Page 48
List of Tables, Figures and Text Boxes......Page 49
Terminology: Similarities, Differences and Recommendations......Page 50
List of Expert Interview Partners......Page 53
References......Page 54
Back Cover
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