Changing climate, changing disasters: pathways to integration

If disasters are changing, why aren’t we?

You are an expert in disaster risk management/reduction, working in tough conditions with little time to process huge amounts of information. You make life-or-death decisions about disaster programmes or policies. You know a lot about what you do. But knowing is not enough...

... we need to integrate DRM/DRR, development and climate change adaptation.

Changing climate, changing disasters: pathways to integration (and accompanying policy brief) is your essential step-by-step guide on a journeytowards more joined-up thinking and action in disaster risk management, especially for sudden and slow-onset disasters exacerbated by climate change. It supports you to:

• connect with your colleagues in development and climate change adaptation by creating a shared ‘language’ of resilience
• assess existing (or develop new) organisations, policies or programmes and build partner networks to fill capacity gaps
• learn lessons and understand what ‘climate smart’ looks like in different contexts (such as conflict affected areas)
• use climate smart indicators and follow integration pathways that deepen existing ways of working
• empower affected communities to learn and reflect by including them in discussions about their concerns, vulnerabilities and risks

Strengthening Climate Resilience (SCR) is a DfID funded programme that aims to enhance the ability of governments and civil-society organisations in developing countries to build the resilience of communities to disasters and climate change as part of their development work.

For more publications on climate smart disaster risk management visit: www.csdrm.org