Integrating ecosystems in resilience practice: criteria for ecosystem-smart disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation
This document introduces a set of criteria which can be used by policy makers and practitioners to better integrate the management of ecosystems and natural resources in their disaster risk reduction work. The criteria describe the required steps to develop an "ecosystem-smart" approach in the design, implementation and evaluation of risk reduction programmes. They provide guidance on the required capacities, partnerships, institutional set-up and planning needs.