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 ......Page 47 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 ......Page 56