Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX)

SREX Approved Outline

 

As amended at the 41st Session of the IPCC Bureau (19-20 May 2010 • Geneva, Switzerland).

  1. Climate change: new dimensions in disaster risk, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience
    • Introduction
    • Extreme Events, Extreme Impacts, Disasters, and their Management for Advancing Climate Change Adaptation
    • Disaster Risk Management, Reduction, and Transfer
    • Coping and Adapting
    • Structure of this Report

     

  2. Determinants of risks: exposure and vulnerability
    • Introduction and Scope
    • Defining Determinants of Risk: Hazard, Exposure and Vulnerability
    • Vulnerability Factors
    • Coping and Adaptive Capacities
    • Dimensions of Exposure and Vulnerability
    • Vulnerability Profiles
    • Trends in Dimensions of Exposure and Vulnerability
    • Risk Identification and Assessment
    • Risk Accumulation and the Nature of Disasters
    • Research Gaps

     

  3. Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment
    • Weather and Climate Events Related to Disasters
    • Requirements and Methods for Analyzing Changes in Extremes
    • Observed and Projected Changes of Weather and Climate Extremes
    • Observed and Projected Changes in Phenomena Related to Weather and Climate Extremes
    • Observed and Projected Impacts on the Natural Physical Environment

     

  4. Changes in impacts of climate extremes: human systems and ecosystems
    • Role of Climate Extremes in Natural and Socioeconomic Systems
    • Nature of Impacts and Relation to Hazards
    • Observed and Projected Trends in System Exposure and Vulnerability
    • System- and Sector-based Aspects of Vulnerability, Exposures, and Impacts
    • Regional Aspects of Vulnerability, Exposures, and Impacts
    • Costs of Climate Extremes and Disasters

     

  5. Managing the risks from climate extremes at the local level
    • Introduction
    • Community Coping
    • Community-based Risk Management in a Changing Climate
    • Challenges and Opportunities
    • Management Strategies
    • Information, Data, and Research Gaps at the Local Level

     

  6. National systems for managing the risk from climate extremes
    • Introduction: Taking Action at the National Level
    • Systems for Managing Disaster Risk and Their Actors
    • Functions of National Disaster Risk Management Systems
    • Aligning National Systems for Managing Disaster Risk with Challenge of Climate Change
    • Conclusion

     

  7. Managing the risks: international level and integration across scales
    • The International Level of Risk Management
    • Rationale for International Action
    • Current International Governance and Institutions (for Risk Management and CC Extremes)
    • Options, Constraints and Opportunities for DDR and CCA at the International Level
    • Considerations for Future Policy and Research
    • Integration across Scales

     

  8. Towards a resilient and sustainable future
    • Introduction
    • Disaster Risk Management as Adaptation: Relationship to Sustainable Development Planning
    • Synergies between Short-term Coping and Long-term Adaptation Interactions among Disaster Risk Management, Adaptation to Climate Change Extremes, and Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
    • Implications for Access to Resources, Equity, and Sustainable Development
    • Options for Proactive, Long-term Resilience to Future Climate Extremes
    • Conclusions: Synergies between Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation as a Key Component for a Resilient and Sustainable Future

     

  9. Case studies
    • Introduction
    • Methodological Approach
    • Case Study Analysis
      • Extreme Events
      • Vulnerable settings and populations
      • Management Approaches
    • Synthesis of Lessons Learned from Case Studies

 

 

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