Enabling knowledge for disaster risk reduction in integration to climate change adaptation - Deliverable 3.4.
Deliverable 3.4. Guidelines to promote the integration among existing networks active in the DRR field
This document analyses the networks engaged in the KNOW-4-DRR project and discusses fundamental issues understood and discovered. The report concludes that a network of networks in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) does not make a lot of sense as the situation stands today.
Even though all the networks share some common interest in enhancing preparedness, prevention capacity, resilience and adaptation capacity to disasters and climate change, they do it form different perspectives, different aims and responding to different mandates. In addition, the most visited sites of networks polarise by a very large extent the attention of the publics, leaving very little extra space for all the other online initiatives. Furthermore, rather than becoming a huge large net, internet communities appear like islands, larger or smaller in a wide ocean with little if any connection among them.
The report is one of the deliverables of the KNOW-4-DRR project. Its aims are to analyse, assess and understand how knowledge about disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change is actually produced, managed and shared, and ultimately made use of – or indeed not used – by scientists, practitioners, decision makers, and by educational and civil society actors.