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Introduction to climate, disasters and international development
Author(s) -
Kelman Ilan
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.1674
Subject(s) - disaster risk reduction , vulnerability (computing) , climate change , framing (construction) , small island developing states , political science , poverty , international development , environmental planning , resilience (materials science) , environmental resource management , development economics , economic growth , geography , economics , computer science , biology , physics , thermodynamics , ecology , computer security , archaeology
This Policy Arena provides four papers exploring development policy for climate‐related disaster risk reduction, including but not limited to climate change. The first two papers explore popular concepts, first ‘vulnerability’, ‘capacity’ and ‘resilience’ and second ‘climate refugees’ and ‘climate conflict’. The last two papers each cover a Small Island Developing State (SIDS), Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Samoa, respectively. The key development policy lesson from the papers is a framing that places climate change within wider climate, disaster risk reduction and development perspectives. That is further highlighted here through describing the Many Strong Voices programme that learns from the past to aim for a better future by tackling climate change. Learning from the history of international development assists in addressing root causes, such as vulnerability and poverty, to achieve effective development policy. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.