TY - JOUR
T1 - Climate change and local level disaster risk reduction planning
T2 - Need, opportunities and challenges
AU - Prabhakar, S. V.R.K.
AU - Srinivasan, Ancha
AU - Shaw, Rajib
N1 - Funding Information:
(Pacific Disaster Center 2005a). This argument is supported by suggestions made by the post-disaster assessment committees (Pacific Disaster Center 2005b; Government of Hyogo Prefecture 2006). Part of the problems seems to rest with the financial and other resources needed to undertake such regular revisions as well as lack of strict enforcement of guidelines in place (Bender 1991).
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Acknowledgements The work published in this paper was supported by the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) through Postdoctoral Fellowship and research grant to the primary author at Kyoto University. We acknowledge the stimulating discussions with Prof Ian Davis, Affiliate Professor, Oxford Books University that helped us enrich the preliminary draft. We also acknowledge learning experience of working with diverse stakeholders including Oxfam-Vietnam, IFRC Regional Delegation in South Asia, and local governments in Japan and India that helped us in enriching our understanding in this subject.
PY - 2009/1
Y1 - 2009/1
N2 - The field of climate change is full of uncertainties that are limiting strategic disaster risk reduction planning. In this paper, however, we argued that there is lot to do before we get our hands on reliable estimates of future climate change impacts. It includes bringing together different stakeholders in a framework suggested in this paper, developing case studies that reflect long-term local impacts of climate change, capacity building of local stakeholders that enables them to take decisions under uncertainty etc. We proposed a simple scheme that brings together climate, disaster and policy community together to start a dialogue in a run-up to understanding wider aspects of long-term risk reduction at local level. Strategic thinking, which has only been restricted to national and regional planning to date, needs to be inculcated in local level disaster risk reduction and policy personnel as well. There is a need to move from the attitude of considering local level players as 'implementers' to 'innovators' for which developing a network of self learning and evolving organizations are required at the local level.
AB - The field of climate change is full of uncertainties that are limiting strategic disaster risk reduction planning. In this paper, however, we argued that there is lot to do before we get our hands on reliable estimates of future climate change impacts. It includes bringing together different stakeholders in a framework suggested in this paper, developing case studies that reflect long-term local impacts of climate change, capacity building of local stakeholders that enables them to take decisions under uncertainty etc. We proposed a simple scheme that brings together climate, disaster and policy community together to start a dialogue in a run-up to understanding wider aspects of long-term risk reduction at local level. Strategic thinking, which has only been restricted to national and regional planning to date, needs to be inculcated in local level disaster risk reduction and policy personnel as well. There is a need to move from the attitude of considering local level players as 'implementers' to 'innovators' for which developing a network of self learning and evolving organizations are required at the local level.
KW - Climate change
KW - Climate task group
KW - Local disaster risk reduction planning
KW - Strategic planning
KW - Uncertainty
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U2 - 10.1007/s11027-008-9147-4
DO - 10.1007/s11027-008-9147-4
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:58149280082
SN - 1381-2386
VL - 14
SP - 7
EP - 33
JO - Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
JF - Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
IS - 1
ER -
