- Title
- Moving from frameworks to action: The importance of context-driven investments to deal with disasters' root causes
- Creator
- Nuno Martins, A.; Lizarralde, Gonzalo; Egbelakin, Temitope; Hobeica, Liliane; Manuel Mendes, José; Hobeica, Adib
- Relation
- Investing in Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience Design, Methods and Knowledge in the face of Climate Change p. 277-290
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818639-8.15001-X
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Priority 3 of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, “investing in disaster risk reduction,” emphasizes the need for sustainable means to finance resilience building and tackle old and new risks. The unprecedented financial pressures caused by disasters on people, businesses, services, and infrastructures, namely the global COVID-19 biological disaster we are experiencing for almost two years, require evaluating current disaster risk reduction (DRR) finance systems and framing actions within clear ethical principles. A reexamination of such investments should also consider the consequences of inaction and acknowledge the existence of multiple understandings of risk, disasters, and climate change, as well as heterogeneous ways to deal with them. In this conclusion, we draw the main lessons from the cases presented in the book’s chapters and reflect on the complexities inherent to the transition from global frameworks into local actions. We examine how the Sendai Framework underrates some of the root causes of disasters and differences in objectives, often hindering well-accomplished DRR investments. We stress the necessity to effectively plan actions in synergy with local policy agendas.
- Subject
- investing in DRR; policy coherence and synergy; post-2015 agendas; Sendai framework for DRR
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1449624
- Identifier
- uon:43711
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780128186398352
- Language
- eng
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