'Disaster risk experts need to think more about climate change'

Tom Mitchell emphasizes the need for a major shift in the way disaster risks are managed - in the strategies designed to reduce risk and in the processes of post-disaster reconstruction, citing recovery of Pakistan's Sindh Province as an example.

In a new approach entitled 'climate smart disaster risk management' (CSDRM), which if fully implemented by governments, civil society and donors, is intended to increase resilience to the disaster risks of a changing climate reports Mitchell.