...Md. Suzaul Islam; Yanrong Zhang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the potential of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) to mainstream consideration of climate change adaptation (CCA) in Bangladesh, particularly for the coastal zone, to improve disaster risk reduction (DRR...

... are explicitly recognised in the strategic goal of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 that relates to “the integration of disaster risk reduction into sustainable development policies and planning”, and paragraphs 186-189 under the sub-section “disaster risk reduction” of the Rio + 20 outcome (UNESCO Green...

...Million Gebreyes; Kindie Tesfaye; Beneberu Feleke Purpose The recently released fifth IPCC report indicates a high agreement among global actors on the need to integrate climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR). However, there remains little local level evidence on how DRR...

... that NELDs are not sufficiently reported in the countries studied. Underestimation of NELD may lead to limited outcomes in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA). NELD should be measured and integrated into decision-making, through capacity-building from local to national level...