Disaster reduction, loss and damage data, and the post-2015 international policy agenda

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 74-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxx Dilley ◽  
Veronica Francesca Grasso
Keyword(s):  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Disaster Reduction ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Loss And Damage ◽  
Damage Data

Promoting Education for Disaster Resilience and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 402-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aiko Sakurai ◽  
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Takeshi Sato
Keyword(s):  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
School Safety ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Disaster Reduction ◽  
Sendai Framework ◽  
Loss And Damage ◽  
Resilient Communities ◽  
Disaster Education

Since the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction began in the 1990s, education has been recognized as having a cross-cutting role in disaster reduction by extending the people’s engagement to the creation and maintenance of sustainable communities internationally. During the same period, Japan has experienced large earthquakes, following which Japan has promoted comprehensive school safety and practical disaster education. Although conditions may vary between Japan and other countries, the approaches, issues and challenges of disaster education have much in common. The 2015-2030 Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR), fully integrates education and includes the overall goal of disaster risk reduction (DRR) in the full disaster management cycle, from prevention, mitigation and preparedness to response, recovery and rehabilitation. Minimizing loss and damage to educational facilities is included as one of global indicators of SFDRR. A comprehensive approach to school safety is emphasized, including the safety of the learning environment, disaster management and DRR education. An awareness of such commonalities, under the SFDRR, international cooperation for promoting education for resilient communities should be promoted in Japan and globally.

scholarly journals Loss and Damage Estimation for Extreme Weather Events: State of the Practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 4243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Doktycz ◽  
Mark Abkowitz
Keyword(s):  
Business Case ◽  
Extreme Weather ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Damage Estimation ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
Loss And Damage ◽  
Damage Data ◽  
Adaptation Policies ◽  
Future Direction

Extreme weather, climate-induced events that are episodic (e.g., hurricane, heatwave) or chronic (e.g., sea-level rise, temperature change) in nature, is occurring with increasing frequency and severity. This places a growing and time-sensitive need on the development and implementation of adaptation policies and practices. To motivate adaptive behavior, however, requires the ability to deliver improved risk-informed decision-making capability. At the crux of this challenge is the provision of full and accurate loss and damage accounting of the overall impact of an extreme weather event, enabling the business case to be made for adaptation investment. We define loss and damage as the manifestation of impacts associated with extreme weather that negatively affect human and natural systems. Progress in the development of adequate loss and damage accounting has been hampered by issues, such as discrepancies in conceptual frameworks, problems associated with data quantity and quality, and lack of standardized analysis methodologies. In this paper, we have discussed the conceptual basis for measuring loss and damage, reviewed the state of loss and damage data collection and modeling, and offered a narrative on the future direction of the practice.

Resource Competition and World Politics in the Twenty-First Century

2000 ◽  
Vol 99 (641) ◽  
pp. 403-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael T. Klare
Keyword(s):  
Resource Competition ◽  
World Politics ◽  
First Century ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Twenty First Century

Resource issues will likely affect world affairs significantly in the years ahead. This impact may not always take the form of discord and conflict, but will certainly demand growing attention from policymakers. Whether in the economic, environmental, or political-military area, resource concerns are certain to rise on the international policy agenda.

scholarly journals How Climate-Induced Migration Entered the UN Policy Agenda in 2007–2010: A Multiple Streams Assessment

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 16-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elin Jakobsson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Multiple Streams ◽  
International Policy ◽  
New Era ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Giant Leap ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Formal Recognition

In 2007, issues regarding climate-induced migration took a giant leap on the international policy agenda at the same time as a growth of interest in and salience of climate security. From having been a technical non-issue since the 1980s, climate-induced migration became one of the most emphasised consequences of climate change for a short period. After three years of fluidity in actors, institutions, and conceptual framings, issues of climate change and migration reached a formal recognition in the 2010 Cancún Adaptation Framework, marking a new era for policy discussions on climate-induced migration. This article sets out to show why this issue, which had been known to policymakers and academia for at least two decades, took such a major leap up the agenda at this specific point in time. The article draws from rich primary interview material together with an analytical framework based on the multiple streams framework in order to systematically answer this question. In doing so, the article primarily offers an empirical contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the specific agenda-setting mechanisms of climate-induced migration in an international policy context.

scholarly journals Unpacking the new urban food agenda: The changing dynamics of global governance in the urban age

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802094203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Sonnino ◽  
Helen Coulson
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Food System ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Metabolic Processes ◽  
Development Discourse ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Food Governance ◽  
New Research ◽  
Research And Policy

Moving beyond the methodological ‘cityism’ of urban food scholarship, in this paper we focus on the ways in which the ‘urban’ is conceptualised, utilised and implicated in post-Quito development discourse. The analysis of international policy documents and data collected through interviews with stakeholders from prominent global organisations highlights the pervasiveness of globally orientated narratives of interconnected, multiscalar food governance that draw upon socio-technical agendas of ‘smart’, ‘territorially integrated’ and ‘resilient’ ideology of capitalised urbanisation. To counteract the tendency of these narratives to reduce complex metabolic processes to mere indicators and targets there is a need for a new research and policy agenda that takes account of urban agencies, inequities of power and the politics of knowledge that permeate multilevel food governance. As we conclude, the problematisation of the ‘urban’ and the contested emergence of smart (food) urbanisms require urgent attention to explicate strategies for a more polycentric and plurivocal food system governance.

Resisting Narrative Closure

2021 ◽  
pp. 147-156
Author(s):  
Laura J. Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Productive Potential

This chapter offers a brief conclusion to the arguments developed throughout this book. It revisits the questions driving the investigation presented here, recapping the logics identified and reflecting on the implications of these logics for the imaginable future(s) of the WPS agenda. It also revisits the contribution that the book hopes to make, both to research on global governance and to research on the WPS agenda. The chapter situates the WPS agenda as a form of international policymaking and international policy practice constituted in and through the stories that are told about it and argues that in order to apprehend WPS as a knowable policy agenda, due analytical attention should be paid to the ways in which it is narrated. Through analysis of narrative and discourse, it is possible to identify the logics that organize and (re)produce meaning in particular configurations and that therefore structure the horizons of possibility around WPS as a policy agenda. The plural logics identified resist efforts to close down or narrow the meaning of WPS as a policy agenda in global politics, and so effective political engagement—the realization of agenda—depends on sitting with, and finding productive potential in, multiplicity, polysemy, and ambivalence.

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