Maximising ecosystem services for disaster risk reduction

This briefing note describes how healthy ecosystems contribute positively to community and environmental resilience, acting as natural, dynamic barriers that can help protect people from natural hazards and the impacts of climate change. It gives some practical examples of this action and advocates for investments in innovative, ecosystem-based interventions that link climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction and vulnerability reduction, as well as for sound environmental management to be featured in disaster risk reduction strategies.