A Conceptual Governance Framework for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Integration

Giuseppe Forino; Jason von Meding; Graham J. Brewer

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Giuseppe Forino, Jason von Meding, Graham J. Brewer. A Conceptual Governance Framework for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Integration[J]. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2015, 6(4): 372-384. doi: 10.1007/s13753-015-0076-z

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Giuseppe Forino, Jason von Meding, Graham J. Brewer. A Conceptual Governance Framework for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Integration[J]. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2015, 6(4): 372-384. doi: 10.1007/s13753-015-0076-z

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A Conceptual Governance Framework for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Integration

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and the session “Cross-sectorial and Multi-scalar Perspectives of Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Integration,” Fifth EUGEO Congress, Budapest, 30 August–2 September 2015. Giuseppe Forino thanks Sara Bonati for her very helpful comments on an initial draft of the article. The authors thank the anonymous referees and the editors for their comments, which substantially improved the article.

the ANDROID Residential Doctoral School, 5th International Conference on Building Resilience, Newcastle, 15–17 July 2015

Giuseppe Forino is supported by a PhD scholarship from the University of Newcastle. Thanks are due to the comments provided in the following meetings: the seminars by the School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle

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Climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) have similar targets and goals in relation to climate change and related risks. The integration of CCA in core DRR operations is crucial to provide simultaneous benefits for social systems coping with challenges posed by climate extremes and climate change. Although state actors are generally responsible for governing a public issue such as CCA and DRR integration, the reform of top-down governing modes in neoliberal societies has enlarged the range of potential actors to include non state actors from economic and social communities. These new intervening actors require in-depth investigation. To achieve this goal, the article investigates the set of actors and their bridging arrangements that create and shape governance in CCA and DRR integration. The article conducts a comprehensive literature review in order to retrieve main actors and arrangements. The article summarizes actors and arrangements into a conceptual governance framework that can be used as a backdrop for future research on the topic. However, this framework has an explorative form, which must be refined according to site- and context-specific variables, norms, or networks. Accordingly, this article promotes an initial application of the framework to different contexts. Scholars may adopt the framework as a roadmap with which to corroborate the existence of a theoretical and empirical body of knowledge on governance of CCA and DRR integration.
- Actors,
- Climate change adaptation,
- Climate change risk,
- Disaster risk reduction,
- Governance

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