Climate change

Climate adaptation for disaster resilience and climate change as a risk driver.

Climate adaptation relates is the process of adjusting in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climate hazards, which moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities. Climate change adaptation is closely related to disaster risk management as they both aim to reduce vulnerability and build resilience to disasters. Climate change as a risk driver refers to how changes in the global climate drive extreme weather events and disaster risk.

Latest Climate change additions in the Knowledge Base

Policies and plans

19 August 2002

Colombia: Lineamientos de politica nacional de cambio climático

The plan aims to identify the strategies required to consolidate the national capacity necessary to respond to the potential threats of climate change.

Colombia - government

Policies and plans

27 November 2001

National strategy for sustainable development for the Slovak Republic

The National Strategy for Sustainable Development for the Slovak Republic has been prepared in the framework of the Project “Capacity Building for Sustainable Development”

Slovakia - government

Documents and publications

5 February 1999

Natural disaster management

This book was produced to mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR). It provides solutions to problems associated with disasters, stimulating discussion and improvements in methods of protecting people and property.

International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction

Tudor Rose