Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction Including Climate Change Adaptation into the Delivery and Management of the Built Environment

This chapter highlights the lack of integration between disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in built environment related policies and regulations. It also highlights how policy and regulations can be used to make DRR including CCA inputs from key built environment stakeholders more proactive and thus more effective. Ideally, urban planners, architects, builders and other decision makers who influence the delivery and management of the built environment should be increasingly asked to respond simultaneously to the challenges posed by DRR, which by definition includes CCA. Whilst complementary, CCA and DRR policies also create some tensions when addressing the challenges faced by the built environment. These tensions are important to consider; however, a number of areas in which synergy can complement both CCA and DRR is in relation to the challenges faced by the built environment.