This document summarizes a workshop on ecosystems, livelihoods, and disaster risk reduction held in Bonn, Germany from September 21-23, 2010. It discusses key issues learned, including the need for multidisciplinary approaches, understanding thresholds and tipping points, integrating ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction into development planning, and valuing ecosystem functions and services. It also outlines scientific and practitioners' knowledge on tools and methods for measurement, tools, success criteria, and challenges. Gaps that still need to be addressed are identified as research on ecosystem and livelihood thresholds for different hazards, institutional capacity building, mainstreaming ecosystem approaches into disaster risk reduction and development planning, and valuing ecosystem functions and services.