... to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at Link to the terms of the CC BY 4.0 licence . Policy coherence Disaster resilience Climate change adaptation Disaster risk reduction SADC Framework The Southern African Development Community (SADC) region...

... Probabilistic risk assessment Climate change adaptation Disaster risk reduction Open data Hazard maps Year after year, there are about 20 cyclones that enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility (Lapidez et al., 2015) with about 45% of them making landfall in the country (Bankoff, 2007...

...Edwin Sam-Mbomah Purpose In this paper, I critically reflect on my research positionality in conducting disaster risk management (DRM) and climate change adaptation (CCA) research in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Positioned both as an insider, due to my cultural and contextual familiarity...

... 25 05 2024 29 11 2024 29 11 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Indigenous knowledge Climate information Weather foresting Seasonal predictors Afrocentricity Climate change adaptation Africa Southern...

... a consistent approach for managing major risk in urban systems by bringing together emergency management, organisational resilience, and climate change adaptation. Design/methodology/approach We develop a theory-building process using an example from the work of the Greater London Authority in the United...

... Water scarcity Agriculture Olive plantations No-till farming Pastoralism Livestock Climate change adaptation Green Morocco plan Rural livelihoods Photo essay Morocco Recurrent droughts and water scarcity are characteristic of Morocco's climate and agro-ecosystems. These conditions have...

... Government Regional government Provision of climate change adaptation policy for the wider Fukuoka region (including rural areas) Influence over urban climate via management of forests, rivers, etc. at landscape scale Receptor of research expertise via expert committees Kyushu University...

... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Governance Capacity Disaster risk reduction Climate change adaptation Local actors in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) have gained increased attention (Hewitt, 2009 ; Luna, 2014...

... and managed urban and regional development, environmental degradation, poverty, climate change and weak governance, which shape risk patterns and trends”. Local governance Risk assessment Climate change adaptation Risk governance Vulnerability assessment The Sendai Framework identified gaps...

... 21 10 2018 21 01 2019 23 02 2019 23 02 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Agriculture Climate change adaptation DRR Climate-smart agriculture adoption Gender and DRRM Gender policy Thus, this study...

... “expert” knowledge on climate change, or consider their actions to be a direct response to climate change, most had undertaken actions resulting from experience with heatwaves. These findings suggest there may be an under-representation of DRR, which includes climate change adaptation actions, within...

...Livhuwani David Nemakonde; Dewald Van Niekerk Purpose Research has demonstrated that governance of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) have evolved largely in isolation from each other – through different conceptual and institutional frameworks, response strategies...

... the small sample size provide only a snapshot of the conditions of children living in peri-urban areas. Practical implications The study points to the need for child-sensitive climate change adaptation at the household, community, and city levels to support the coping mechanisms of children...

... future changes. It is exemplified here by the need to link disaster risk reduction (DRR) with climate change adaptation (CCA) and flood risk management (FRM). The concept answers to the variety of adopted solutions and build-up of knowledge that exist, as a consequence of far-reaching local liabilities...

...Per Becker Purpose Capacity assessment is increasingly identified as a vital tool for effective capacity development for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. However, most internationally supported capacity assessments focus mainly on one administrative level in their attempts...