
Christine Wamsler
Professor, Docent, appointed Excellent Teaching Practitioner (ETP)

Reducing Risk in a Changing Climate: Changing Paradigms Toward Pro-poor Adaptation
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Summary, in English
This paper analyses how disaster risk management paradigms have gradually developed since the 1960s, shaped by practical experience of—and the debate about—the rising number of disasters, growing urbanization, and changing climatic conditions. In this context, climate change is shown as driving an urban pro-poor adaptation agenda, which could allow current shortcomings in urban risk reduction to be overcome. However, as past lessons in disaster risk management are rarely considered, any potential for improvement remains untapped. Possible ways of rectifying this situation are discussed, and a comprehensive framework for the reduction of both disaster and climate risks is presented.
Department/s
- Division of Fire Safety Engineering
- LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
Publishing year
2010
Language
English
Pages
6-25
Publication/Series
Open House International
Volume
35
Issue
1
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Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Topic
- Building Technologies
- Other Civil Engineering
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Keywords
- urban development
- disaster risk reduction
- Climate change
- adaptation
- poverty reduction
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0168-2601