Opportunities and challenges of international scientific cooperation in the field of disaster risk reduction - experiences from IRDR, IPCC-SREX and concrete projects in post disaster regions
Abstract
Opportunities and challenges of international scientific cooperation in the field of disaster risk reduction - experiences from IRDR, IPCC-SREX and concrete projects in post disaster regions
The presentation will focus on how international scientific networks enhanced the global discourse and also the cooperation between scientists working in different nations on issues of disaster risk management, adaptation to extreme events and recovery. Emphasis will be given to factors that enhanced or hampered international scientific cooperation in the context of the IRDR (Integrated Research on Disaster Risk) and IPCC-SREX report. In addition, the presentation will present specific experiences with the science-policy interface in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. While policy makers and national or local governments are often interested to learn more about changing hazard and risk patterns, their interest to explore issues of vulnerability and particularly root causes of risk is limited, especially if these aspects also encompass issues of good governance or state failure, such as corruption. Experiences from the presentation of research findings from the World-Risk-Index at the international and national level will be outlined and respective Lessons Learned formulated. Attention will be given to mismatches between the necessity to analyse risk reduction and resilience building over a longer period of time after a crisis and the fact that most countries only provide funding for research on DRR for a shorter project duration. In addition, various national research permits issued to examine crises or disasters and recovery processes are also only short term. Finally, hard and soft factors that allow enhancing the international cooperation among researchers in the field of disaster risk reduction and adaptation despite the often national funded and focused research programmes are outlined.- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018AGUFMPA12A..08B
- Keywords:
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- 6620 Science policy;
- PUBLIC ISSUES