Resilient responses to climate change and variability: a challenge for public policy

O'Brien, Geoff and O'Keefe, Phil (2010) Resilient responses to climate change and variability: a challenge for public policy. The International Journal of Public Policy, 6 (3/4). pp. 369-385. ISSN 1740-0600

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Abstract

Climate change produces future risks and increasing climate variability produces current risks. Reducing disaster risk is addressed at the national level using approaches usually developed by the United Nations. These approaches, particularly in the developed world, address resilience building but practice is top-down and reactive. Effective resilience building requires a bottom-up participatory approach aimed at enhancing adaptive capacity. Using climate change and variability as a vehicle, this article posits that, without a shift in public policy, effective resilience could be jeopardised. Key to successful adaptation has been the willingness to learn how to develop a coherent set of principles that can inform a new approach to public policy for disaster management.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sustainable development, disaster management, mitigation, adaptation, risk reduction, social learning, organisational learning
Subjects:	L700 Human and Social Geography
Department:	Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Geography and Environmental Sciences
Depositing User:	Geoffrey O'Brien
Date Deposited:	14 Mar 2012 15:37
Last Modified:	13 Oct 2019 00:30
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/5729

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