Disaster prevention, preparedness and management and linkages with climate change adaptation
This paper develops an approach that looks at institutional structure and interfaces as a way of identifying the possibilities and actions for mainstreaming climate change adaptation in the disaster prevention, preparedness and management context (disaster management for short). It argues that climate change adaptation and disaster management frameworks have thematic as well as institutional linkages. The study is aimed to have wider applications as many other countries share the common challenge of deciding how to best link the two parallel tracks for tackling climate adaptation and disaster management.
By mapping out institutional structures and interfaces, the paper highlights possible entry points for climate adaptation into disaster management structures in India. It asserts that integration of climate change adaptation concerns in disaster management needs to be taken up at three levels: (i) integrating adaptation to longer term climate scenarios with the disaster mitigation and response interventions; (ii) regularizing policy networks to take up climate change adaptation within the disaster management framework; and (iii) facilitating permeability among the parallel structures within the common actors in both frameworks.