Environmental Management and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR): key publications
Healthy and well-managed ecosystems offer numerous services to societies, including regulation of natural hazards. These disaster risk reducing services include flood regulation, landslide prevention, control of wild fires, reduction of storm surge impacts and so forth. Conversely, ecosystem decline increases disaster risk both by reducing the ability of an ecosystem to act as a natural buffer, as well as by reducing people's resilience by reducing their bases for livelihoods such as food, medicine and construction materials.
ProAct promotes ecosystem-based disaster disk reduction, and can provide further assistance in its practical application.
Some of the main general publications (excluding scientific articles) on ecosystem-DRR linkages are listed and downloadable below for easy reference (Copyright and ownership remain with original publishers).
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ProAct Network
2008
- The Role of Environmental Management and Eco-engineering in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
- Environmental Management: Multiple Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation Benefits for Vulnerable Communities
ADPC
2009
Regional Training Manual on Disaster Risk Reduction for Coastal Zone Managers
DEWGA
2009
FAO
2007
The Role of Coastal Forests in the Mitigation of Tsunami Impacts. RAP Publication 2007/01.
ISDR
2009
- Summary and Recommendations
- Chapter 4 - The heart of the matter: the underlying risk drivers
- Chapter 6 - Addressing the underlying risk drivers
ISDR and Kyoto University
2010
- HFA-4 - Reduce the underlying Risk Factors
ISME and ITTO
2009
IUCN
2009
- Environment as Infrastructure: Resilience to Climate Change Impacts on Water through Investments in Nature.
- Environmental Guidance Note for Disaster Risk Reduction: Healthy Ecosystems for Human Security
- Incorporating environmental safeguards into disaster risk management.
- Volume 3: Tools, techniques and relevant resources.
2008
- Incorporating environmental safeguards into disaster risk management.
- Volume 1: Reference material.
- Incorporating environmental safeguards into disaster risk management.
- Volume 2: The Disaster Management Cycle.
2006
IUCN, TNC, UNDP,WCS, World Bank and WWF
2010
Natural Solutions: Protected areas helping people cope with climate change
ProVention Consortium and CDB
2006
Tools for Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction: Environmental Assessment. Guidance Note 7
UNEP
2010
2009
UNEP and ISDR
2007
Environment and Disasters: Emerging Perspectives
UNEP and WCMC
2006
In the front line: shoreline protection and other ecosystem services from mangroves and coral reefs
World Bank
2010
Convenient Solutions to an Inconvenient Truth: Ecosystem-Based Approaches to Climate Change
2002
WWF
2008
Natural Security: Protected areas and hazard mitigation. A research report by WWF and Equilibrium.