Reducing hazard vulnerability: towards a common approach to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

The document identifies a lack of coordination between four research and policy communities—disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, environmental management, and poverty reduction—which has contributed to the continued increase in socio-economic vulnerability to natural hazards, particularly hydro-meteorological ones. It argues for strengthened collaboration and information exchange, proposing three specific exercises to facilitate a learning process between the climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction sectors.

• Despite efforts from disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, environmental management, and poverty reduction communities, socio-economic vulnerability to natural hazards is increasing, with hydro-meteorological hazards causing rising economic losses and affecting more people.
• The limited success in reducing vulnerability is attributed to the fact that the four primary research and policy communities have largely operated in isolation from one another.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2008). Reducing hazard vulnerability: towards a common approach to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. https://www.sei.org/publications/reducing-hazard-vulnerability-towards-common-approach-disaster-risk-reduction-climate-adaptation/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Reducing hazard vulnerability: towards a common approach to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. 2008. https://www.sei.org/publications/reducing-hazard-vulnerability-towards-common-approach-disaster-risk-reduction-climate-adaptation/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2008reducing, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Reducing hazard vulnerability: towards a common approach to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2008}, month = dec, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/reducing-hazard-vulnerability-towards-common-approach-disaster-risk-reduction-climate-adaptation/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }