Environment and Disaster Risk

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Introduction The effects of human activity on the environment have caused increasing concern since the 1970s, and international policy frameworks have been developed and implemented over the past t... hirty years to control and mitigate this impact. However, society now faces dynamic global environmental change on such a massive scale that human activities must be adapted not only to reduce the change itself, but also to respond to the effects of that change. Scientists and decision makers have only recently recognized the need for policy to tackle the complexity of this interaction. Growing interest in adaptation to climate change is evidence of this realization. The scientific community now stresses that both the underlying causes of human vulnerability to hazards, and the role of environmental conditions in exacerbating those hazards should be taken into account. This discussion paper aims to address the complexity of risk in this ‘two-way system’ between environment and human societies. [Show More]

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