Disaster and Climate Change Risk Assessment Methodology for IDB Projects: A Technical Reference Document for IDB Project Teams (2024)

Third National Climate Conference CLIMATE-RELATED RISKS AND DISASTERS National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) – DOST in Partnership with the OML Center

Recent shifts in beliefs, paradigms, and policies led to the present concept of disaster risk management with emphasis on disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) as effective strategies in reducing casualty and damage to property caused by disasters. A prerequisite to DRR and CCA is disaster risk assessment (DRA) which consists of hazard and vulnerability analyses including exposure and coping capacity analyses. CCA is factored into DRA in response to the climate change projections (IPCC, 2013) of sea level rise, more intense tropical cyclones and heavy rainfall in the future. A science-based method of conducting DRR and CCA is introduced following the core concepts of SREX (Special Report on Extreme Events) - Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2012). The method is based on the relationship, R = HEV/C, where R, H, E, V and C refer to risk, hazard, exposure, vulnerability and coping capacity, respectively. These terms follow international standard definitions and usages under R.A. 10121. A detailed hazard analysis of Typhoon Yolanda and its strong winds and storm surge, and a cursory physical, social, and economic vulnerability analyses of the disaster area were conducted. The resulting qualitative and quantitative risk assessments of Typhoon Yolanda manifested the susceptibility of the coastal areas of Samar and Leyte to high risks of strong winds and storm surge occurrences. Various DRR and CCA strategies, based on the suggested disaster risk assessment methodology are discussed. Applications of DRR and CCA in relation to post-disaster recovery and rehabilitation phases of disaster risk management are presented. Key words: risk, hazard, vulnerability, disaster, risk reduction, climate change, adaptation

A Glance at Key Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Concepts CONSULTATION VERSION 2006 ON BETTER TERMS

2006

Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change

2012

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Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction. Background Paper for the 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction

2014

Disaster Risks Research and Assessment to Promote Risk Reduction and Management

Technical document on the topic of disaster risk reduction, presented for supporting the Summits of the Americas 2012

The following report summarizes the results of a research developed during September and October of 2012, on request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Colombia. This research was done in order to create a technical document that could support the discussions about the topic “natural disasters” that will be held during the Sixth Summit of the Americas, a regional summit that will be celebrate in the city of Cartagena – Colombia, in 2012. It is suggested in here that the challenge of reducing disaster impacts in our continent demands to go beyond those models that only promote humanitarian aid or post-disaster reconstruction support, and invite to promote new approaches focused on disaster risk reduction that, without promoting disaster response preparation, gives priority to a more prospective and compensatory disaster risk management. Further on, some peculiarities that might be making difficult an integral risk management of hydroclimatic disasters in our region are presented, particularly due to a discursive practice about climate change phenomenon that seems to be taking place during the last decade. Finally, some recommendations and suggestions (most of them supported on experiences of recent disaster registered in our continent) are made focused on promote a transition in our region towards a more effective management of disaster risks.

ADPC. 2013. Integrating Disaster Risk Management into Climate Change Adaptation. Disaster Risk Management Practitioner’s Handbook Series. Bangkok., 2013

Integrating Disaster Risk Management into Climate Change Adaptation promotes the adoption of a risk management approach to climate-sensitive decision-making and serves as a reference to integrate DRM with climate change adaptation (CCA). It guides the reader on how to contribute to CCA by improving the management of climate extremes. The handbook specifically addresses those DRM practitioners who sit within: -- the National Disaster Management Agency; or -- line agencies and local governments and have the designated responsibility for DRM. The handbook provides DRM practitioners with advice for integrating DRM into key adaptation processes: policies, adaptation strategies, and adaptation projects. The handbook explicitly guides the practitioner on how to support government authorities to consider and treat disaster risk through these tools. The guidance provided aims to: -- promote the importance of DRM as a starting point for adaptation; -- supply the practitioner with sound arguments to be used as they advocate the integration of DRM; -- identify approaches, strategies, tools and activities for comprehensive integration of DRM into the designated adaptation processes; and -- demonstrate the fundamental concept of integration so that the DRM practitioner can apply it wherever the need arises. Oversight: Developed under the overall guidance of Neil Britton, ADB, with technical oversight provided by Iftekhar Ahmed, Charlotte Benson & Bharat Dahiya.

The international decade for natural disaster reduction (IDNDR): A challenge to science

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 1994

Editorial Note on the 10-Year Anniversary of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Science: A Thank You Letter

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2020

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT (IJDRM)

International Journal of Disaster Risk Management, 2020

International Journal of Disaster Risk Management, Vol. 2, No. 2