ABSTRACT
The sustainability or sustainable development perspective provides a systemic view, indicating the complex interdependencies among essential subsystems to human welfare and survival. The conception of sustainable development orients us not only to ecological factors and the interaction of the ecological, and the social. It also orients us to the economic conditions and processes, the essential conditions for financing and maintaining subsystems or programmes of disaster risk reduction (DRR) including climate change adaptation (CCA). The systemic model identifies hazards and opportunities for DRR including CCA as well as risk reduction for other challenges. DRR including CCA as well as other systems or subsystems entails constructions or re-constructions of subsystems for the purpose of response to stressors and involves such operations as 'avoiding', regulating/blocking, reducing vulnerability to them, and transforming the stressors and/or the social system. The chapter considers two types of stressors: disaster with the action of DRR and the hazard influencer of climate change with the action of CCA.
