3. Challenges in implementing the Sendai Framework in Mountain Environments

Details

  • Full Title

    Challenges in implementing the Sendai Framework in Mountain Environments

  • Scheduled

  • Moderated by

    Joerg Szarzynski, Stefan Schneiderbauer, Cees van Westen, Margreth Keiler

  • Scientific Committee Teams involved

    Risk and Resilience

  • Type

    Synthesis-Workshop

Description

Up to date, many lives and livelihoods worldwide are lost in the perpetual vicious cycle of “disaster, respond, recover and repeat”. The request during the Sendai World Conference on DRR in 2015 to change the paradigm: “From managing disasters to managing risks,” has not yet taken place completely. In mountain environments systemic & cascading disaster risk and lacking disaster risk management range among main obstacles for sustainable development and transformative resilience. Without improved DRR, prevention and ERP mountain regions will continue to face severe impacts due to climate change, growing populations and rapid urbanization. Hence, an open question is, how the Sendai Framework can be applied to the specific nature/environment of mountain regions. Main challenge is here the topic of risk governance including the missing links in mainstreaming DRR and coherent policies. This workshop follows a trans-disciplinary approach: from science to policy and practice in risk reduction planning. It aims at exchanging on state of knowledge, raise awareness on research gaps, and initiate future research activities on this topic.

Assigned Focus Sessions

ID08: Assessing vulnerabilities and resilience to mountain hazards

Focus Sessions

ID21: Glacier and permafrost risks in a changing climate

Focus Sessions

ID25: Gravitational mass flow simulations for avalanches

Focus Sessions

ID28: Highland-lowland systems in water management and resilient societies

Focus Sessions

ID37: Mountain climate change adaptation: data, knowledge, and governance

Focus Sessions

ID46: Nature-based solutions to water-related risks in mountain regions

Focus Sessions

ID52: Pathways towards nature-based adaptation and transformation in mountains

Focus Sessions
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5. Probing the past, predicting the future