Climate Change as A Catalyst for Disaster Risk Reduction and Emergency Preparedness
Climate change is a profound phenomenon that influences our environment in ways that not only create new problems but also intensify the existing ones. Drawing from comprehensive research, this article explores how climate change fosters change in policies and practices to counter such risks. A mixed method approach was implemented for this study, the first phase includes a quantitative analysis of existing policies, and the second phase includes a qualitative analysis. For this research paper, only qualitative findings of research are presented and discussed. Thematic areas include the impact of climate change on natural disasters, socio-economic implications, resilient urban planning and infrastructure development, mainstreaming climate science into DRR and emergency preparedness, international collaboration and policy formulation, and community-based approaches and indigenous knowledge integration. Study shows complicated interdependencies and cause-and-effect interactions between climate parameters and natural disasters.
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Disaster Risk Reduction (DDR), Climate Change, Ethnography, Resilient Urban Planning, Sustainable Management, Green Climate Fund, Disaster Mitigation, Indigenous Knowledge Integration, Sendai Framewor
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(1) Mian Haris Farooq
PhD Scholar, Department of International Relations, Muslim Youth University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
(2) Abid Ghafoor Chaudhry
Associate Professor & Chairman, Department of Anthropology, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan
(3) Muhammad Fahim Khan
Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Muslim Youth University, Islamabad, Pakistan.