Integrating Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) for greater local level resilience: lessons from a multi-stakeholder think-tank

Pereira, Taryn; Shackleton, Sheona E; Donkor, Felix Kwabena

Title: Integrating Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) for greater local level resilience: lessons from a multi-stakeholder think-tank
Title: Policy brief, number 16, 2017
Creator: Pereira, Taryn
Creator: Shackleton, Sheona E
Creator: Donkor, Felix Kwabena
Subject: Climatic changes -- South Africa
Subject: Climatic changes -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- South Africa
Date Issued: 2017
Date: 2017
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/62027
Identifier: vital:28097
Description: The last few years have seen one of the most severe droughts in recent times in the southern African region, and news headlines are increasingly full of warnings about heavy storms, fires and floods. There is no doubt that extreme hydro-meteorological events, and their multiple and potentially disastrous impacts, are at the forefront of the public consciousness at the present time and are one of the key concerns regarding the impacts of climate change in the region. While the links between extreme climate events, disaster risk reduction (DRR - see Box 1) and climate change adaptation (CCA - see Box 2) are recognised in the South African Climate Change White Paper, this is not the case for the whole region. Furthermore, even if there is national recognition of the need to synergise these two spheres of endeavour, this does not always trickle down to effective policy, planning and implementation at the local level.
Format: 9 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University
Publisher: Faculty of Science, Environmental Science
Language: English
Relation: Policy brief
Relation: Policy brief Number 16 Department of Environmental Science, Rhodes University
Rights: Rhodes University

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