ABSTRACT
This introduction presents some of the key concepts discussed in third part of this book. The part explores some aspects of multi-dimensional approaches to knowing and understanding. It focuses on knowledges and understandings that are used and promoted less frequently in disaster risk reduction (DRR) including climate change adaptation (CCA). Ideally, an exploration of interdisciplinarism, transdisciplinarism, and multidisciplinarism within different scientific fields would have advanced knowledges and understandings for DRR including CCA. Power relations imbue all ideas, policies, and actions regarding DRR including CCA. Often for DRR including CCA, attempts to separate out nature and to de-link human constructs from nature's forces and energies relate to human efforts to have power over nature. Knowledge disciplinarism is one way of delineating and collecting power, where one knowledge field or paradigm excludes others in order, for instance, to highlight CCA over other DRR and development concerns.
