ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to reassert the arguments that disaster risk reduction (DRR) including climate change adaptation (CCA) should be integrated into achieving development goals and addressing environmental issues and vice versa. The integration of these goals requires recognition of their connections (and disconnections), which should guide co-production of knowledge by different actors at different geographical and temporal scales. The chapter argues that the integration of DRR including CCA within development goals should occur at all levels from practical through to methodological, theoretical, and policy in order to support local communities and to ensure that local plans and actions are consistent with those of government and non-government institutions. Thus, frameworks, methodologies, and the desired outcomes should be flexible and inclusive to address upward accountabilities (i.e., the accomplishment and compliance reports to donors and funding agencies) and, most importantly, downward accountabilities (i.e., the needs, rights and demands of local communities).
