The document discusses the concerns and roles of humanitarian/development NGOs like CARE in addressing climate change. It notes that climate change will negatively impact the poor and marginalized groups that these organizations serve by threatening food security, health, livelihoods, and exacerbating inequality. It argues that NGOs can play important roles in innovating adaptation solutions, demonstrating ways to reduce vulnerability and integrate climate change into development work, advocating for just policies, and responding to climate-related disasters.
The document discusses various climate-related concepts and ideas, arguing that many of them are misleading, misapplied, or misunderstood. It questions concepts like "climate-proofing," "food security," "ground zero," and others, explaining why each term may convey the wrong implications or understanding of the issue. The document advocates reexamining how these ideas are defined and framed in order to more accurately portray climate challenges and solutions.
The document discusses the role of emergency managers in addressing climate change. It provides definitions for key terms like mitigation, adaptation, and resilience. While emergency managers typically focus on short-term acute hazards, climate change involves chronic impacts that require longer-term planning. The document argues emergency managers should have a seat at the table in discussions around climate change adaptation due to their expertise in risk reduction and building community resilience.
The document discusses a presentation on the social dimensions of climate change. The presentation aims to demonstrate why considering the social aspects contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of climate change's impacts and how this perspective can inform sustainable development efforts. It covers topics like vulnerability and resilience, complex social responses to climate change, the importance of governance, and developing climate-resilient policies.
Developing Transistion Planning from Cyber Incident Response to RecoveryDavid Sweigert
This document discusses disaster recovery and the responsibilities of local governments. It notes that all disasters are local and affect communities of all sizes. Local government leaders are responsible for overseeing the four phases of emergency management: preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation. The document focuses on long-term recovery efforts, which can take months or years and involve rebuilding communities. Key aspects of long-term recovery discussed include economic recovery, financing recovery efforts, and the importance of local leadership.
Demography global warming and economic impact of climate changeCosty Costantinos
This document discusses the impacts of global warming and population growth on climate change and the environment. It notes that rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and sea level rise are negatively impacting populations around the world. Population growth is exacerbating these effects of climate change by increasing greenhouse gas emissions and limiting societies' ability to adapt. The economic costs of climate change are also increasing, with insurers warning that annual costs could reach $150 billion within a decade. Mainstreaming demographic and environmental policies is proposed to help address these challenges through sustainable development strategies.
Ecosystem and Community-based Adaptation, 2010Charles Ehrhart
The document discusses ecosystems and their linkages to human well-being and adaptation. It notes that healthy ecosystems provide goods, services, and livelihood opportunities that enhance human resilience to climate impacts. However, growing populations and development often unsustainably exploit ecosystems, while climate change places major strains on ecosystems. The document also discusses Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) and Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA), noting some similarities but also important differences in their approaches and underlying aims. CBA primarily targets vulnerable human communities, while EbA often focuses on conservation areas and reducing species vulnerability.
The document summarizes key points from the IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX Report). It discusses how extreme events are becoming more common and severe due to climate change. While climate models project further increases, vulnerability perspectives emphasize how social, economic, and environmental factors determine disaster risk. The SREX Report represents growing cooperation between disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation. Effective strategies address vulnerability and help with development in both the near and long term.
The document discusses various climate-related concepts and ideas, arguing that many of them are misleading, misapplied, or misunderstood. It questions concepts like "climate-proofing," "food security," "ground zero," and others, explaining why each term may convey the wrong implications or understanding of the issue. The document advocates reexamining how these ideas are defined and framed in order to more accurately portray climate challenges and solutions.
The document discusses the role of emergency managers in addressing climate change. It provides definitions for key terms like mitigation, adaptation, and resilience. While emergency managers typically focus on short-term acute hazards, climate change involves chronic impacts that require longer-term planning. The document argues emergency managers should have a seat at the table in discussions around climate change adaptation due to their expertise in risk reduction and building community resilience.
The document discusses a presentation on the social dimensions of climate change. The presentation aims to demonstrate why considering the social aspects contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of climate change's impacts and how this perspective can inform sustainable development efforts. It covers topics like vulnerability and resilience, complex social responses to climate change, the importance of governance, and developing climate-resilient policies.
Developing Transistion Planning from Cyber Incident Response to RecoveryDavid Sweigert
This document discusses disaster recovery and the responsibilities of local governments. It notes that all disasters are local and affect communities of all sizes. Local government leaders are responsible for overseeing the four phases of emergency management: preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation. The document focuses on long-term recovery efforts, which can take months or years and involve rebuilding communities. Key aspects of long-term recovery discussed include economic recovery, financing recovery efforts, and the importance of local leadership.
Demography global warming and economic impact of climate changeCosty Costantinos
This document discusses the impacts of global warming and population growth on climate change and the environment. It notes that rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and sea level rise are negatively impacting populations around the world. Population growth is exacerbating these effects of climate change by increasing greenhouse gas emissions and limiting societies' ability to adapt. The economic costs of climate change are also increasing, with insurers warning that annual costs could reach $150 billion within a decade. Mainstreaming demographic and environmental policies is proposed to help address these challenges through sustainable development strategies.
Ecosystem and Community-based Adaptation, 2010Charles Ehrhart
The document discusses ecosystems and their linkages to human well-being and adaptation. It notes that healthy ecosystems provide goods, services, and livelihood opportunities that enhance human resilience to climate impacts. However, growing populations and development often unsustainably exploit ecosystems, while climate change places major strains on ecosystems. The document also discusses Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) and Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA), noting some similarities but also important differences in their approaches and underlying aims. CBA primarily targets vulnerable human communities, while EbA often focuses on conservation areas and reducing species vulnerability.
The document summarizes key points from the IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX Report). It discusses how extreme events are becoming more common and severe due to climate change. While climate models project further increases, vulnerability perspectives emphasize how social, economic, and environmental factors determine disaster risk. The SREX Report represents growing cooperation between disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation. Effective strategies address vulnerability and help with development in both the near and long term.
Our Planet:Maintaining momentum - Financing action on climate Andy Dabydeen
The document discusses financing action on climate change and maintaining momentum. It introduces the 10th Special Session of UNEP's Governing Council in Monaco, where the key theme will be mobilizing public and private finance to meet the climate change challenge. His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco argues that the public and private sectors both have a key role to play in sustainable development and that working together through increased budgets and private investment is necessary to address environmental problems threatening the planet.
Social Resilience andNatural Resource Dependent Societies -Kenya-Dr. Asenath Maobe
This lecture was presented to Master of Science Students at the University of Nairobi, in January 2021 at the invitation of Prof. Joanes Atela a seasoned climate change expert and a convener of Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN).
The lecture highlights the praxis between social resilience and natural resource dependent societies, a Kenyan context. Enjoy!
Simply Green -- A Few Steps in the Right Direction toward Integrating Sustain...NIC Inc | EGOV
A white paper that discusses various ways that technology is delivering green benefits to government -- including the value of online services in reducing paper flow and eliminating vehicle traffic for in-person office visits.
This document discusses integrated urban flood risk management. It notes that over 75% of flood damage occurs in urban areas, but current policies focus only on reducing flood probabilities rather than addressing extreme events. It advocates adopting more flexible, adaptive, and multi-sectoral approaches that build resilience through measures like reversible protections, capacity building, and learning from demonstration projects. The document concludes that successfully managing future floods requires understanding available responses, political will to implement ideas, and public engagement, and recommends establishing networks and projects to catalyze action on urban flood resilience around the world.
The document discusses sustainability and its importance for business strategy. It defines sustainability as using resources to support current needs without compromising future needs. Businesses are implementing sustainability programs for environmental, social, and economic benefits like increased sales, innovation, and reduced risk. However, to fully realize benefits, businesses need a holistic approach that emphasizes customer needs, management commitment, fact-based decisions, collaboration, risk management, agility, and innovation.
This document analyzes trends in ecological footprints in the Mediterranean region. It is a collaboration between Global Footprint Network, WWF Mediterranean, UNESCO Venice, Plan Bleu, and others. The document finds that the ecological footprints of Mediterranean nations now exceed the region's biocapacity by over 150%. Addressing ecological deficits and reducing fossil fuel dependence will help countries combat climate change and become more economically resilient by managing biocapacity and reducing demand on natural resources. Taking action now will be less costly than waiting, as countries can build economies that work with nature instead of against it.
Introduction to Ecological Economic Efficiency; Sustainable Development and Ecological Economic Efficiency; Case study: 'Life enhancing services and life support services: Finding the balance'
Introduction to Sustainable Development; Case Study: Envisioning the Future; and The Ecological Economic Problem: Matching Ultimate Means with Ultimate Ends
This document discusses strategies for natural resource managers to adapt to climate change. It emphasizes that managers must think differently than in the past, as climate patterns will not remain the same. It recommends letting scientific knowledge guide management, reducing other stresses on ecosystems, broadening management approaches, and managing at scales defined by issues rather than politics. Managers should develop adaptation strategies, diversify approaches, accelerate learning, assess and plan at multiple scales through partnerships. The document stresses the challenges of uncertainty but suggests approaches like adaptive management and scenario planning can help address uncertainty.
The document outlines Mitigation Solutions Corporation's (MSC) capabilities for flood mitigation and disaster preparedness/response. MSC provides comprehensive services including flood mitigation system design, emergency flood defense, slope stabilization, grant services, and permanent flood mitigation infrastructure. Their mission is to minimize damage from flooding and other natural disasters through mitigation solutions tailored to each client's needs.
Humboldt County Firewise Mapping Project - Final reportJerry Dinzes
Prepared by Humboldt State students, this report discusses the benefits of Firewise mapping and community fire management programs. Prepared By: Jerry Dinzes, Eileen Nunez, Chibu Okezie, Hether Ward
Towards a Resilient Sydney Research Seminar presentation on Emergency ManagementNeil Dufty
The report reviewed a range of international, national and Sydney specific literature and undertook interviews with relevant lead emergency management agencies. The report synthesised findings and undertook a gap analysis.
The report related largely to the resilience interrelationships of disaster risk reduction; emergency management; and community development. It also mapped the relevant legislation and governance arrangements in New South Wales.
The three key issues identified as pressing for Sydney from the interviews with the emergency agencies representatives: 1) increased workload and strain on capacity; 2) declining volunteerism; and 3) uncertainty as to the effects and community response to hazards. The report notes that climate change may drive organisational change within emergency management – requiring a shared culture that supports a willingness to further develop strategic integration and coordination across agencies.
Aspects of community development that are increasingly being viewed as critical to emergency management are volunteerism; social capital formation and disaster behavioural psychology. The report noted that no major studies were able to be sourced in relation to emergency management volunteerism, social capital formation or community disaster resilience in Sydney.
In relation to flooding in Sydney, there is increasing potential risk to infrastructure. The report outlines that it is an imperative that emergency agencies have access to data from all infrastructure owners to enable future emergency planning in flood prone lands.
There are generally gaps in research relating to recovery from disasters, potentially due to no major natural disasters in Sydney for over 10 years, but noting the research may come under other banners such as social work and health. Lower extent of research into heatwave and coastal erosion/inundation compared to flooding and bushfire. Lower level of research into the preparedness of communities / businesses in Sydney.
Churches Caring for Creation and Climate JusticeP8P
This document provides information on resources from the World Council of Churches (WCC) related to care for creation and climate change issues. It lists several publications produced by the WCC on topics like ecotheology, earth ethics, and spiritual values for the earth community. It also provides links to statements and documents on the WCC's website, including a dossier on climate change and the WCC. The document encourages actions like engaging with local churches, praying for climate vulnerable communities, learning more about the WCC's work, and supporting advocacy campaigns calling for an ambitious agreement on climate change.
Resilience managing the risk of natural disasterBob Prieto
Resilience: Managing the Risk of Natural Disaster considers risk management strategies, risk identification methods, and pre- and post- event activities to minimize risk. Post-event recovery is a more widely understood field, as practitioners have a plethora of lessons learned from completed projects. Pre-event planning as a means of minimizing damage and downtime is a lesser developed field, and this book organizes both literature supported data and the authors’ anecdotal experiences into a framework for disaster management, spanning pre- and post- event.
The document discusses community-based disaster management. It defines disaster management as organizing resources and responsibilities for dealing with humanitarian aspects of emergencies. It emphasizes empowering local communities to analyze their risks and capacities. The community-based approach promotes bottom-up participation in planning and implementation alongside top-down support. Case studies from countries like Afghanistan and India demonstrate training community members in emergency response and earthquake-safe construction.
The document discusses overpopulation and the exponential growth of the world's human population over the past 50 years. It notes that the world population has more than doubled from 3 billion in 1959 to 7 billion in 2011, increasing by 233% over that time period. This growth rate is alarming and unsustainable given demands on resources. The document questions whether limits should be placed on population growth to balance with death rates and ensure long term sustainability of life on Earth.
Hanspeter LINIGER "Assessment and mapping of LD and SLM as a direct support t...Global Risk Forum GRFDavos
This document discusses mapping land degradation and sustainable land management (SLM) interventions to support combating desertification. It describes assessing where and when to intervene based on the level of degradation and mapping specific technologies and approaches. The mapping involves assessing land use systems, degradation types and extent, conservation approaches, and their impacts. This provides spatial overviews to identify priority areas and guide the scaling up of effective SLM. Lessons include developing participatory and harmonized databases to inform policy, planning, and monitoring of projects combating land degradation.
This report documents the widespread human impacts of climate change occurring today. It finds that climate change causes over 300,000 deaths, affects 325 million people, and causes $125 billion in economic losses annually on average. Four billion people are vulnerable and 500 million face extreme risk. The impacts studied include effects on food, health, poverty, water resources, human displacement, and security. The worst affected are the world's poorest, who contribute least to causing climate change. Climate change threatens to undermine progress on sustainable development and humanitarian goals. More severe impacts are expected in coming decades even if further warming is contained.
This document discusses the interlinkages between environment and disaster management. It identifies issues like lack of coordination between environmental and disaster policies and the need to incorporate both areas into development practices. The document provides examples of specific disaster-environment links for events like typhoons and tsunamis. It examines goals around human safety and sustainability. Key topics covered include natural hazards, risk, vulnerability, waste management, climate change impacts, and integrating disaster concerns into frameworks like the Millennium Development Goals and Agenda 21.
Global crises and economic implicationsMartin de Wit
The document summarizes a lecture on understanding the global crises and their implications for economics. It outlines the impacts of the crises such as malnutrition, food riots, and child poverty. It examines various views on the causes including instrumental, structural, moral, and ontological perspectives. It discusses economic theories from mainstream and heterodox schools. It argues responses have missed elements like complexity, learning, and transitions. The conclusions call for a more inclusive economic-ecological theory that accounts for physical limits and innovation within complex, dynamic relationships between nature and humans.
Our Planet:Maintaining momentum - Financing action on climate Andy Dabydeen
The document discusses financing action on climate change and maintaining momentum. It introduces the 10th Special Session of UNEP's Governing Council in Monaco, where the key theme will be mobilizing public and private finance to meet the climate change challenge. His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco argues that the public and private sectors both have a key role to play in sustainable development and that working together through increased budgets and private investment is necessary to address environmental problems threatening the planet.
Social Resilience andNatural Resource Dependent Societies -Kenya-Dr. Asenath Maobe
This lecture was presented to Master of Science Students at the University of Nairobi, in January 2021 at the invitation of Prof. Joanes Atela a seasoned climate change expert and a convener of Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN).
The lecture highlights the praxis between social resilience and natural resource dependent societies, a Kenyan context. Enjoy!
Simply Green -- A Few Steps in the Right Direction toward Integrating Sustain...NIC Inc | EGOV
A white paper that discusses various ways that technology is delivering green benefits to government -- including the value of online services in reducing paper flow and eliminating vehicle traffic for in-person office visits.
This document discusses integrated urban flood risk management. It notes that over 75% of flood damage occurs in urban areas, but current policies focus only on reducing flood probabilities rather than addressing extreme events. It advocates adopting more flexible, adaptive, and multi-sectoral approaches that build resilience through measures like reversible protections, capacity building, and learning from demonstration projects. The document concludes that successfully managing future floods requires understanding available responses, political will to implement ideas, and public engagement, and recommends establishing networks and projects to catalyze action on urban flood resilience around the world.
The document discusses sustainability and its importance for business strategy. It defines sustainability as using resources to support current needs without compromising future needs. Businesses are implementing sustainability programs for environmental, social, and economic benefits like increased sales, innovation, and reduced risk. However, to fully realize benefits, businesses need a holistic approach that emphasizes customer needs, management commitment, fact-based decisions, collaboration, risk management, agility, and innovation.
This document analyzes trends in ecological footprints in the Mediterranean region. It is a collaboration between Global Footprint Network, WWF Mediterranean, UNESCO Venice, Plan Bleu, and others. The document finds that the ecological footprints of Mediterranean nations now exceed the region's biocapacity by over 150%. Addressing ecological deficits and reducing fossil fuel dependence will help countries combat climate change and become more economically resilient by managing biocapacity and reducing demand on natural resources. Taking action now will be less costly than waiting, as countries can build economies that work with nature instead of against it.
Introduction to Ecological Economic Efficiency; Sustainable Development and Ecological Economic Efficiency; Case study: 'Life enhancing services and life support services: Finding the balance'
Introduction to Sustainable Development; Case Study: Envisioning the Future; and The Ecological Economic Problem: Matching Ultimate Means with Ultimate Ends
This document discusses strategies for natural resource managers to adapt to climate change. It emphasizes that managers must think differently than in the past, as climate patterns will not remain the same. It recommends letting scientific knowledge guide management, reducing other stresses on ecosystems, broadening management approaches, and managing at scales defined by issues rather than politics. Managers should develop adaptation strategies, diversify approaches, accelerate learning, assess and plan at multiple scales through partnerships. The document stresses the challenges of uncertainty but suggests approaches like adaptive management and scenario planning can help address uncertainty.
The document outlines Mitigation Solutions Corporation's (MSC) capabilities for flood mitigation and disaster preparedness/response. MSC provides comprehensive services including flood mitigation system design, emergency flood defense, slope stabilization, grant services, and permanent flood mitigation infrastructure. Their mission is to minimize damage from flooding and other natural disasters through mitigation solutions tailored to each client's needs.
Humboldt County Firewise Mapping Project - Final reportJerry Dinzes
Prepared by Humboldt State students, this report discusses the benefits of Firewise mapping and community fire management programs. Prepared By: Jerry Dinzes, Eileen Nunez, Chibu Okezie, Hether Ward
Towards a Resilient Sydney Research Seminar presentation on Emergency ManagementNeil Dufty
The report reviewed a range of international, national and Sydney specific literature and undertook interviews with relevant lead emergency management agencies. The report synthesised findings and undertook a gap analysis.
The report related largely to the resilience interrelationships of disaster risk reduction; emergency management; and community development. It also mapped the relevant legislation and governance arrangements in New South Wales.
The three key issues identified as pressing for Sydney from the interviews with the emergency agencies representatives: 1) increased workload and strain on capacity; 2) declining volunteerism; and 3) uncertainty as to the effects and community response to hazards. The report notes that climate change may drive organisational change within emergency management – requiring a shared culture that supports a willingness to further develop strategic integration and coordination across agencies.
Aspects of community development that are increasingly being viewed as critical to emergency management are volunteerism; social capital formation and disaster behavioural psychology. The report noted that no major studies were able to be sourced in relation to emergency management volunteerism, social capital formation or community disaster resilience in Sydney.
In relation to flooding in Sydney, there is increasing potential risk to infrastructure. The report outlines that it is an imperative that emergency agencies have access to data from all infrastructure owners to enable future emergency planning in flood prone lands.
There are generally gaps in research relating to recovery from disasters, potentially due to no major natural disasters in Sydney for over 10 years, but noting the research may come under other banners such as social work and health. Lower extent of research into heatwave and coastal erosion/inundation compared to flooding and bushfire. Lower level of research into the preparedness of communities / businesses in Sydney.
Churches Caring for Creation and Climate JusticeP8P
This document provides information on resources from the World Council of Churches (WCC) related to care for creation and climate change issues. It lists several publications produced by the WCC on topics like ecotheology, earth ethics, and spiritual values for the earth community. It also provides links to statements and documents on the WCC's website, including a dossier on climate change and the WCC. The document encourages actions like engaging with local churches, praying for climate vulnerable communities, learning more about the WCC's work, and supporting advocacy campaigns calling for an ambitious agreement on climate change.
Resilience managing the risk of natural disasterBob Prieto
Resilience: Managing the Risk of Natural Disaster considers risk management strategies, risk identification methods, and pre- and post- event activities to minimize risk. Post-event recovery is a more widely understood field, as practitioners have a plethora of lessons learned from completed projects. Pre-event planning as a means of minimizing damage and downtime is a lesser developed field, and this book organizes both literature supported data and the authors’ anecdotal experiences into a framework for disaster management, spanning pre- and post- event.
The document discusses community-based disaster management. It defines disaster management as organizing resources and responsibilities for dealing with humanitarian aspects of emergencies. It emphasizes empowering local communities to analyze their risks and capacities. The community-based approach promotes bottom-up participation in planning and implementation alongside top-down support. Case studies from countries like Afghanistan and India demonstrate training community members in emergency response and earthquake-safe construction.
The document discusses overpopulation and the exponential growth of the world's human population over the past 50 years. It notes that the world population has more than doubled from 3 billion in 1959 to 7 billion in 2011, increasing by 233% over that time period. This growth rate is alarming and unsustainable given demands on resources. The document questions whether limits should be placed on population growth to balance with death rates and ensure long term sustainability of life on Earth.
Hanspeter LINIGER "Assessment and mapping of LD and SLM as a direct support t...Global Risk Forum GRFDavos
This document discusses mapping land degradation and sustainable land management (SLM) interventions to support combating desertification. It describes assessing where and when to intervene based on the level of degradation and mapping specific technologies and approaches. The mapping involves assessing land use systems, degradation types and extent, conservation approaches, and their impacts. This provides spatial overviews to identify priority areas and guide the scaling up of effective SLM. Lessons include developing participatory and harmonized databases to inform policy, planning, and monitoring of projects combating land degradation.
This report documents the widespread human impacts of climate change occurring today. It finds that climate change causes over 300,000 deaths, affects 325 million people, and causes $125 billion in economic losses annually on average. Four billion people are vulnerable and 500 million face extreme risk. The impacts studied include effects on food, health, poverty, water resources, human displacement, and security. The worst affected are the world's poorest, who contribute least to causing climate change. Climate change threatens to undermine progress on sustainable development and humanitarian goals. More severe impacts are expected in coming decades even if further warming is contained.
This document discusses the interlinkages between environment and disaster management. It identifies issues like lack of coordination between environmental and disaster policies and the need to incorporate both areas into development practices. The document provides examples of specific disaster-environment links for events like typhoons and tsunamis. It examines goals around human safety and sustainability. Key topics covered include natural hazards, risk, vulnerability, waste management, climate change impacts, and integrating disaster concerns into frameworks like the Millennium Development Goals and Agenda 21.
Global crises and economic implicationsMartin de Wit
The document summarizes a lecture on understanding the global crises and their implications for economics. It outlines the impacts of the crises such as malnutrition, food riots, and child poverty. It examines various views on the causes including instrumental, structural, moral, and ontological perspectives. It discusses economic theories from mainstream and heterodox schools. It argues responses have missed elements like complexity, learning, and transitions. The conclusions call for a more inclusive economic-ecological theory that accounts for physical limits and innovation within complex, dynamic relationships between nature and humans.
This document discusses the interlinkages between environment and disaster management. It provides definitions of key terms like natural disaster, hazard, vulnerability and risk. The goal of environment and disaster management is ensuring human safety and sustainability. Several case studies are presented showing the causes and effects between environment and disasters. The document calls for better integration of environment and disaster issues into development practices to reduce risks and enhance resilience.
MDGs and Global Environmental Change - Governance, Innovation and LearningEuforic Services
Presentation by Andreas Rechkemmer (IHDP) during the High Level Policy Forum - After 2015: Promoting Pro-poor Policy after the MDGs - Brussels, 23 June 2009 - http://www.bit.ly/after2015
Global Challenge: Cross Unit Questionsjacksonthree
The key themes of the Global Challenge section are sustainability, conservation versus development, environmental degradation and destruction, and poverty. The document provides definitions and relationships between these themes. Sustainability involves meeting human needs without depleting resources or damaging environmental, ecological, or economic systems. Conservation and development can conflict as economic advancement requires resources. Environmental degradation results from climate change, exploitation, and human actions. Poverty stems from environmental damage, lack of economic development, and the widening gap between wealthy and poor societies. Globalization impacts environments through issues like global warming and altering production and consumption.
This document discusses approaches to natural resource management that incorporate disaster risk reduction. It provides an overview of a presentation on the topic, including discussing how disaster impacts are increasing due to factors like population growth and environmental degradation. It notes that vulnerability is exacerbated by poverty, disease, and other issues. The document then defines disasters and discusses factors that affect disaster impacts like poor land use planning and climate change. Finally, it discusses the need for holistic approaches that combine disaster risk reduction with other development efforts.
This lecture covered Module 1 of course CVE1-405 Planning for Sustainable Development of Second year B. Tech Civil Engineering affiliated to Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University, Lonere, Raigad, Maharashtra- India.
Environment and Disaster Management discusses the interlinkages between the environment and disasters. It identifies problems such as a lack of coordination between environmental and disaster policies. Natural disasters are defined as events that cause significant human and economic losses, influenced by hazards, vulnerability, and risk. Several case studies are presented to illustrate specific disaster-environment linkages, such as the impacts of typhoons and tsunamis. The document aims to provide information to development practitioners and managers on how to better integrate environmental and disaster issues into development practices to improve sustainability and safety.
The document discusses the relationship between disasters and development, and the impact of land use and land cover changes on disaster risk. It notes that development projects like dams, embankments, and changes in land use can influence vulnerabilities to disasters. Land use is defined as the activities and arrangements people undertake on land, while land cover refers to the physical material on the earth's surface. Zoning designates permitted land uses. Assessing land use is important for natural resource management, as land use/land cover patterns are shaped by socio-economic and natural factors. Understanding land use changes is crucial for effective resource management and sustainable development planning.
Alternate livelihood income plan for vulnerability reduction through communit...Premier Publishers
The occurrence of natural disasters is currently one of the major developmental challenges that the world is facing. The Society for National Integration through Rural Development (SNIRD), an NGO working with the fisherfolk communities in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, has long been working towards reducing community vulnerability and strengthening coping mechanisms. As there were no preparedness measures among the communities, the impact of the disaster was worsened, often destroying their livelihood support mechanisms. Hence SNIRD initiated a project to organize the community and imparted trainings towards disaster coping mechanisms. The project followed a community-based strategy, making use of Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) techniques by involving the community. This paper deals with the techniques of vulnerability assessment by involving the community and in preparing alternate livelihood income plan towards disaster preparedness and management. The project was evaluated using an amended version of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) and found that the project was able to sufficiently increase their alternative livelihood mechanisms and therewith comprehensively and sustainable decrease community vulnerability to natural disasters.
Final Draft Research Paper_Sustainability copyTobbi Stewart
1. The document discusses the concept of sustainability and introduces its three main components: a healthy environment, social justice, and economic growth.
2. It explains that sustainability aims to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
3. The document analyzes how human activity has negatively impacted the environment through pollution, resource depletion, and climate change, threatening Earth's carrying capacity and long-term habitability.
Unicef Training September New York September 2009cbachofen
The document discusses the social dimensions of climate change learning module. It provides an introduction to climate change topics like the IPCC conclusions on climate change being unequivocal and human-induced. It discusses how climate change impacts people through threats to livelihoods, health, food security, migration and conflict. The social dimensions involve issues of poverty, human rights, inequality and vulnerability.
Oxfam GB integrates climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in its approach by:
1) Mainstreaming adaptation into development, humanitarian assistance, and advocacy work to manage and reduce climate risks.
2) Focusing on disaster risk reduction, sustainable livelihoods, natural resource management, and advocacy to build community resilience to climate hazards like floods and droughts.
3) Linking adaptation and risk reduction by addressing both current climate-related disasters and long-term climate impacts through interventions before, during, and after disasters.
This document discusses the need to redefine education in the context of climate change. It covers topics such as the causes and impacts of climate change, the ethical implications, and actions individuals and communities can take. The key points are:
1) Unsustainable development has led to climate change through environmental degradation and greenhouse gas emissions. A paradigm shift is needed to understand sustainable development through an ecosystem lens.
2) Education must incorporate science, the political economy of decision making, ethics around climate justice, and opportunities for relevant individual and community action on mitigation and adaptation.
3) Education should follow the four pillars of learning - learning to know, do, be, and live sustainably - to foster critical thinking and
Why and how do we evaluate ecosystems, Nature is the source of much value to us every day, and yet it mostly bypasses markets, escapes pricing and defies valuation. This lack of valuation is an underlying cause for ecological degradation and loss of biodiversity. Globally, efforts are being made to assess impact of conservation or degradation of ecological resources and a new term Green Gross Domestic Product (GGDP) has also been coined to reflect the same.
The document discusses environmental problems, their causes, and sustainability. It covers three key principles of sustainability: 1) life depends on solar energy, 2) biodiversity provides natural services, and 3) chemical/nutrient cycling means there is little waste in nature. It also discusses how human activities can degrade natural capital and lead to environmental problems through unsustainable resource use, population growth, poverty, and excluding environmental costs from market prices. Solutions discussed include implementing sustainable practices, pollution prevention, and including full environmental costs in prices.
The document discusses analyzing socio-economic vulnerability to climate change. It provides an overview of existing methodologies for assessing vulnerability, including utilizing socio-economic data and existing scenario models. An example scenario model from California shows how vulnerability may differ across demographic groups and economic sectors under different flooding conditions. Key points are that a society's future vulnerability to climate change will differ from today's, and both wealthy and poor groups can be negatively affected by extreme weather.
Climate change e-learning tool - from Mercy CorpsNIDOS
This document summarizes a training module on climate change for Mercy Corps staff. It begins by stating that 300 million people will migrate and 2 billion will face water shortages by 2020 due to climate change. It then provides an introduction to the training, which aims to enhance understanding of climate change and how it affects Mercy Corps' work. The training covers topics like the impacts of sea level rise, tropical storms, and drought on communities worldwide. It discusses how Mercy Corps is helping communities prepare for and adapt to the effects of climate change through initiatives like disaster risk reduction and promoting renewable energy.
This document discusses climate change impacts and vulnerability in African cities. It identifies factors that make cities vulnerable, including their location, physical/social sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. Case studies show cities are vulnerable to direct climate impacts as well as secondary effects on infrastructure, health, and livelihoods. Vulnerability is uneven, disproportionately affecting the poor, women, children and elderly. Adaptation requires improving infrastructure, supporting coping strategies, and community-based approaches. Key responses involve building adaptive capacity, strengthening institutions/governance, and encouraging contributions from all levels of society.
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Building a prosperous green future for aceh, 2013Charles Ehrhart
Floresta is a socially and environmentally sustainable business based in London. Their mission is to rehabilitate and sustainably manage tropical forests. They have been active since 2010 in Aceh, Indonesia. Floresta's Sustainable Development and Conservation Programme in Aceh aims to improve livelihoods by building a green economy that conserves forests, especially the Leuser Ecosystem. The programme includes protecting forests, strengthening natural resource management, creating sustainable forest product supply chains, and improving smallholder farming. Major investments planned under the programme include restarting a paper mill, establishing community plantations, and developing biomass power plants.
Community Based Adaptation, Principles And Practices, 2011Charles Ehrhart
Community-based Adaptation (CBA) aims to reduce the negative impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities in both the short and long term. It is a community-led approach that complements top-down planning while keeping communities at the center. CBA values both tangible infrastructure projects and intangible investments in community empowerment. It employs practices like promoting climate-resilient livelihoods, disaster risk management, and advocacy to address the underlying social causes of vulnerability. CBA is guided by human rights principles of non-discrimination, participation, empowerment, and accountability.
Humanitarian Impacts Of Climate Change In East Africa Region, 2009Charles Ehrhart
Poor communities living in developing nations will be most severely impacted by climate change. Their livelihoods depend on agriculture, forestry, and fishing, industries that will suffer losses from more frequent extreme weather like droughts and floods under climate change. As climate change increases the intensity of natural disasters, it will exacerbate poverty and food insecurity in vulnerable populations.
Climate Change - Impacts and Humanitarian ImplicationsCharles Ehrhart
Climate change: impacts and humanitarian implications. Presentation at the Dubai International Humanitarian Aid & Development Conference (DIHAD), April 2009.
The document discusses the UNFCCC process and current climate change negotiations. It provides an overview of key terms and organizations involved in the UNFCCC including the COP, Kyoto Protocol, AWG-KP, and AWG-LCA. The current negotiations are focused on establishing further commitments beyond the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol from 2012-2020, as well as addressing long-term cooperative action on mitigation, adaptation, technology transfer, and financing under the Bali Action Plan through both the AWG-KP and AWG-LCA tracks.
This document summarizes a report about how climate change is affecting human migration and displacement. It finds that climate change is already contributing to displacement through the breakdown of livelihoods and increased disasters. Looking ahead, long-term migration is expected to increase as livelihoods dependent on ecosystems and rain-fed agriculture decline. Rising sea levels also threaten densely populated low-lying river deltas and islands. The impacts are uneven, with women and poorer populations generally facing greater challenges. Large-scale government responses may be needed but also carry risks if not implemented carefully.
1. climate change
concerns and roles of
humanitarian/development
International NGOs
Geoffrey Davis, CEO CARE UK
and Charles Ehrhart, CARE
Climate Change Coordinator.
Presentation to the U.K. Royal
Geographic Society, 2007
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2. CARE works to reduce poverty, reduce inequity and fight for justice.
Efforts to mitigate climate
change are important to us
because poor communities -
and especially people in
marginalized social groups - will
only be able to adapt if our
climate doesn’t change too
much and if it doesn’t happen
too fast...
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Comment: So, we have a major interest - and stake - in negotiations about how to mitigate climate change (cc).
3. CARE is concerned about the
consequences of climate change
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Comment: For many years, people in the poor communities we serve have been telling us that the climate is changing... and
they have been telling us about the consequences. These consequences are the focus of our concern.
Examples include:
4. Climate change is causing:
• More people to suffer from hunger
• More people to live without adequate water
• An increase in the threats to people’s
health ... and robbing them of resources to
prevent and/or treat ill-health
• A decline in the productivity of NR-based
livelihoods
• A decline in the range of poor people’s
livelihood opportunities
• An increase in the frequency & intensity of
natural resource conflicts
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[Slide]
Comment: This lengthy, but only partial, list brings me to my first major point...
5. Climate change goes to the heart of our
core concerns about food security,
water, public health, economic
opportunities, peace, conflict and
displacement… as well as biodiversity
and ecosystem services.
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Comment: Many people think about cc as “environmental issue” in the sense of it being narrowly about drowned polar bears
and disappearing butterflies. So, they wonder why humanitarian/development NGOs care. The answer is that it is not an
“environmental issue” in this sense. Indeed, cc goes to the heart…
6. Consequences for women
• Women’s economic insecurity increases more
than men’s
• Gender barriers create obstacle to adaptation
• Climate change can lead to a sustained increase in
women’s workload (e.g. due to male migration,
reduced access to resources, more time spent
travelling to collect water and search for
fuelwood).
• Girl children are the first ones to be pulled out of
school when livelihoods become stressed
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The adverse effects of cc fall disproportionately on women and other less powerful social groups. This is because vulnerability
to cc largely depends on access to, and control over, financial, physical, natural, human and social capital.
This brings me to my second major point...
7. We are concerned about climate
change because it effects different
social groups differently ... and can
worsen inequity between them.
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8. per capita CO2 emissions, by region
Gross disparities
=
Clear responsibilities
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These figures of per capita CO2 emissions by region are from 2003. As such, they are dated. However, the picture they paint
of gross disparities remains. The simple truth is that the crisis we face was primarily caused by energy and other consumption
patterns in North America and Western Europe over the last 100+ years.
9. We are concerned about the justice of
national and international responses to
our world’s climate crisis.
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10. Just responsibilities
• Everyone needs to take dramatic steps
to mitigate climate change - not just
those who have contributed most to the
problem
• But those countries that have grown
rich through a process of polluting our
planet’s atmosphere should shoulder
the costs of their own adaptation and
that of others who can’t afford it
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11. What roles can humanitarian
and development NGOs play
in a global response to
climate change?
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Preceding slides beg the question, “What can humanitarian and development INGOs contribute to addressing the challenge of
cc?” The answer is. “A lot.”
We have many unique skills, experiences and relationships. Some of the most important roles for us to play - roles where we
have a clear comparative advantage - include:
12. Innovating and demonstrating
• Ways to reduce vulnerability to
chronic conditions (e.g. less
predictable seasons) and
catastrophic events (e.g. floods)
in poor communities
• Ways to “climate proof”
development interventions
• Ways to integrate climate change
considerations into strategic
planning (e.g. scenario-based
disaster preparedness planning)
• Approaches to “intelligent disaster
recovery”
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The photo at top, right is of a “floating garden” from a CARE project in Gaibandha District, Bangladesh. Much of the land in the
floods during the monsoon season, making it impossible to grow crops. Floating gardens, which are built using water
hyacinths, allow farmers to grow food on flooded land.
13. Innovating and demonstrating
Ways to de-carbonise development
Ways to make carbon markets work for poor people, especially
through “multiple-benefit” projects that reduce GHG emissions or
sequester CO2 whilst at the same time:
• Conserving or restoring forest
ecosystems
• Safeguarding or augmenting
the productivity of farm fields
• Reducing the risk of disasters • Diversifying
incomes through the
growth of non-
timber forest
products
• Reducing the amount of time
that women and children
must invest in firewood
collection
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14. Advocating
INGOs are advocating - and empowering
others to advocate on their own behalf - for
just, effective policies to mitigate climate
change and support poor communities’
adaptation efforts.
INGOs bring experiences to the table that
can infuse policy debates with:
•Expert knowledge about priority needs
•Realism
•A sense of moral urgency
•Crucial feedback on what is working... and
what is failing to meet the needs of
especially vulnerable social groups
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The legitimacy of INGOs to engage in public policy debates stems from a range of sources.
In the case of CARE and other field-based organizations, it largely rests on our experience
working at the grass-roots for more than sixty years.
15. Emergency response
CARE and other INGOs currently provide emergency relief
to more than ____ people worldwide. As such, we are an
indispensable part of the global humanitarian response
network.
It is likely that our emergency response activities will
increase as a result of climate change.
CARE, for example, responded to a record- shattering six
cyclones in Madagascar this year.
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Climate change is already swelling the ranks of refugees and displaced persons. We don’t know how high their numbers will
go. Some estimate 200 million by 2050 (________) whilst others suggest this could be as high as 1 billion by _____ (Christian
Aid)
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