Pathways for Adaptive and Integrated Disaster Resilience

The document introduces the Adaptive and Integrated Disaster Resilience (AIDR) framework, designed to address the increasing complexity and uncertainty of disasters caused by environmental and socio-economic changes. AIDR focuses on building system adaptiveness through institutional processes that operate across sectors and scales. The authors identify seven conceptual pathways to achieve this integration: integrating DRR with adaptation and development, strengthening polycentric governance, fostering collaborations, improving knowledge and information, enabling institutional learning, self-organization and networking, and providing disaster risk finance and insurance. When applying these pathways to Indonesia, the authors emphasize the need for increased resources for local multi-stakeholder collaboration and the necessity of placing communities at the center of DRR and adaptation efforts.

• The authors define Adaptive and Integrated Disaster Resilience (AIDR) as the capacity of communities and nations to build resilience through integrated methods and strengthened system adaptiveness, allowing them to manage uncertainties via cross-sectoral institutional processes, stakeholder engagement, and social learning.
• The paper identifies seven specific pathways to achieve AIDR, which serve as conceptual tools for integrating disaster risk reduction (DRR) with adaptation and development: integrating DRR, adaptation and development; strengthening polycentric governance; fostering collaborations; improving knowledge and information; enabling institutional learning; self-organization and networking; and providing disaster risk finance and insurance.
• Analysis of the AIDR pathways in Indonesia indicates a critical requirement for more resources and stronger multi-stakeholder collaboration at the local level, as well as the need to center the community in integrated DRR and adaptation approaches.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2013). Pathways for Adaptive and Integrated Disaster Resilience. https://www.sei.org/publications/pathways-for-adaptive-and-integrated-disaster-resilience/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Pathways for Adaptive and Integrated Disaster Resilience. 2013. https://www.sei.org/publications/pathways-for-adaptive-and-integrated-disaster-resilience/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2013pathways, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Pathways for Adaptive and Integrated Disaster Resilience}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2013}, month = nov, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/pathways-for-adaptive-and-integrated-disaster-resilience/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }