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SREX Approved Outline |
- Climate change: new dimensions in disaster risk, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience
- Risk reduction, risk management, risk transfer
- Extreme events vs. extreme impacts
- Determinants of risks: exposure and vulnerability
- Dimensions of vulnerability
- Coping and adaptive capacities
- Assessment of and trends in vulnerability
- Risk identification, risk accumulation, and the nature of disasters
- Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment
- Weather and climate events related to disasters
- Climate extremes and impacts: past and current changes
- The causes behind the changes
- Climate extremes and impacts: projected long-term changes
- Confidence in the projections
- Changes in impacts of climate extremes: human systems and ecosystems
- Role of climate extremes in natural and socioeconomic systems
- Nature of impacts and relation to hazards
- Observed trends in system exposure and vulnerability
- System- and sector-based aspects of vulnerability, exposures, and impacts
- Regional aspects of vulnerability, exposures, and impacts
- Costs of climate extremes and disasters
- Managing the risks from climate extremes at the local level
- Community coping, including migration
- Community-based disaster risk management
- Gender, age, wealth, and entitlements
- Social transfers, including microfinance, cash transfers, benefit schemes, and cash for work
- Risk transfers, including microinsurance
- Data as input for risk management, including challenges
- Costs of managing the risks from climate extremes
- Managing the risks from climate extremes at the national level
- Practice, including methods and tools
- Approaches for managing the risks
- Strategies, including institutions, legislation, and finance
- Perspective on the links between national and local scales
- Costs of managing the risks from climate extremes
- Managing the risks: international level and integration across scales
- International policy frameworks
- International humanitarian institutions and practice
- Other relevant international issues (health, food security, finance, security)
- Financing and (dis)incentives for risk reduction, costs and benefits of various approaches, and implications for financing flows
- Perspective on links between local, national, and global scales
- Costs of managing the risks from climate extremes
- Toward a sustainable and resilient future
- Disaster risk reduction as adaptation: relationship to development planning
- Synergies between short-term coping and long-term adaptation for sustainable development
- Interactions among disaster risk management, adaptation to climate change extremes, and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions
- Implications for access to resources, equity, and sustainable development
- Implications for achieving relevant international goals
- Options for proactive, long-term resilience to future climate extremes
- Case studies
This chapter will include up to 25 case studies selected to illustrate how extreme events and vulnerability interact to result in disasters, lessons learned on effective and ineffective approaches to preparing for, responding to, and reconstructing after extreme events. Possible case studies could address vulnerable regions (e.g., Bangladesh, Southern Africa), vulnerable kinds of settlements (e.g., large cities), particular kinds of extremes (e.g., intense rain, persistent heat waves), experience with particular risk management strategies (e.g., early warning systems), or integrated evaluations of particular events (e.g., European heat wave of 2003, Australian wildfires of 2009). The individual case studies will be written by contributing authors who will be identified in association with the case study each wrote. The chapter will be under the leadership of at least two coordinating lead authors.
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