Options for decision makers
Expert Meeting on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management, FAO Headquarters, Rome, 28-29 February 2008:
This paper addresses systematic processes to lessen the impacts of climate-related hazards in the context of climate change. It considers the cross-sectoral linkages of climate change, disaster risk reduction and management, with a particular focus on the implications for agriculture and food security. Its scope concentrates on those aspects of climate change related to increasing frequency and intensity of extreme climate events such as droughts, floods, windstorms and wild fires.
It do not address projected longer term impacts of gradual climate changes such as glacier melt, sea level rise and ecosystem stress.