Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction: Issues and Challenges -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- List of Editors -- Brief Introduction to the Series -- Brief Introduction to the Volume -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction: overview of issues and challenges -- Introduction -- Climate change adaptation -- Disaster risk reduction -- Climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction -- Common issues and challenges of CCA and DRR -- Structure of the book -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Part I -- Chapter 2. Embedding climate change adaptation within disaster risk reduction -- Introduction -- Vocabulary -- Climate change's research and policy role -- Practical implications: Flood and drought risk reduction -- Framing climate change -- References -- Chapter 3. Disaster risk reduction under the United Nations framework convention on climate change -- The convention and Its provisions for disaster risk reduction -- Ongoing Related Processes and Programmes Under The Convention -- UNFCCC Compendium on Methods and Tools -- NWP Partners and Pledge Database -- Local Coping Strategy Database -- Needs, Challenges, and Opportunities -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Documents that are included in Tables 1 and 2 but not included in the references -- Chapter 4. Promoting adaptation and disaster risk reduction in the post-Kyoto climate regime -- Introduction -- Is disaster risk reduction an adaptation? -- Developing countries and their adaptive capacity -- Promoting disaster risk reduction under the climate regime -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 5. Disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation: Enabling environment for integration -- Introduction -- Incentives and constraints to implement CCA/DRR at local level.

Decentralization and new roles at the front line -- Markets and local decision-making -- Capacity development as the central entry point -- Why enabling environment for CCA/DRR -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II -- Chapter 6. Adaptive governance of risks: climate, water, and disasters -- Introduction -- Policy transitions -- Disaster risk reduction initiatives -- Integrated water resources management -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Note -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 7. Mainstreaming climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction through school education: Perspectives and challenges -- Introduction -- Perspectives of disaster education for effective DRR and CCA -- Role of schools -- Students as stakeholders for community preparedness -- Main challenges of school disaster education -- Needs and recommendations for mainstreaming CCA into DRR education -- Lessons learned: Elements of school education for integrating DRR and CCA -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 8. Teleprocessing for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction -- Introduction -- Climate change adaptation with disaster risk reduction -- Teleprocessing - Applications in Disaster Management -- Road ahead -- References -- Part III -- Chapter 9. Climate change adaptation and urban risk management -- Introduction -- What are the main factors threatening urban areas? -- Vulnerability and risk drivers in urban areas -- Concept of resilience applied in urban areas -- Vulnerability versus resilience in urban areas -- How to measure a city's resilience to natural hazards? -- Climate Disaster Resilience Index -- How to make a city resilient against climate-related hazards? -- Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 10. Climate change adaptation and coastal zone management -- Introduction and background.

Significance of coastal zone -- Climate change drivers and adaptation options -- Conclusion -- References -- Web Sites -- Chapter 11. Climate change adaptation and community forest management -- Introduction -- Relationship of forest ecosystems and services and climate change -- Impacts of climate change on forests and local communities -- Adaptation practices in community forestry -- Key issues and challenges -- Conclusion and way forward -- References -- Chapter 12. River basin management for effective disaster risk reduction in the face of changing climate -- Problem statement -- Climate change impacts on river basin and possible adaptation: need for integrated approach -- River basin management for effective disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation: example from Vietnam -- Framework of integrated river basin management and climate change adaptation linkages -- References -- Chapter 13. Housing sector considerations in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation -- Introduction -- The context of the housing sector -- DRR and CCA mainstreaming in the housing sector -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV -- Chapter 14. Integrated management of urban flooding for climate change adaptation in developing countries -- Introduction -- Climate change adaptation in the context of disaster management -- New Japanese government policy for climate change adaptation in flood management -- Climate change adaptation in flood management in Metro Manila suburbs -- Conclusion -- Consideration -- Note -- References -- Chapter 15. Integrating disaster risk reduction with climate change adaptation: Recent initiatives in South Asia -- Introduction -- Climate change and disasters -- Impacts of climate change -- Climate change and disaster risk reduction -- Outline placeholder -- SAARC declaration on climate change.

Road map for implementation of SAARC action plan -- References -- Chapter 16. Climate change adaptation in ASEAN: Actions and challenges -- Introduction -- Climate changes, vulnerability, and impacts -- Climate change adaptation actions -- Regional frameworks for action on climate change adaptation in the ASEAN -- Challenges in climate change adaptation implementation -- The way forward -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 17. Climate change adaptation issues in small island developing states -- Introduction -- SIDS -- SIDS in the Pacific -- Climate change adaptation issues -- Policies and action strategies -- Future -- References.