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Abstract Climate change will increase the unpredictability, magnitude, and frequency of both slow and rapid onset disaster events. Although large-scale engineered interventions have been common for the purposes of risk reduction and adaptation in the past, emerging ecosystem-based approaches are gaining attention. In contrast to 'hard' infrastructure, ecosystem-based solutions that integrate risk management priorities with natural processes are touted as being more cost effective, socially equitable, and environmentally sustainable. Current developments in ecosystem-based approaches to climate adaptation (EbA) and ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR) tend to focus on scientific projections, engineering techniques, and their respective roles in shaping economic benefits. However, recent studies show that effective implementation of such solutions is dependent on the governance practices and interactions between relevant actors, interests, and institutional structures. In response, this paper reviews the current status of governance studies in the context of EbA and Eco-DRR. The analysis is grounded in the interdisciplinary theories of governance, socio-ecological systems, infrastructure studies, and multilevel politics, with sources derived from scientific databases including Scopus and Science Direct advanced query. Based on the review, we evaluate existing governance theories, assessment methods, and implementation through illustrating emblematic examples from around the world. The paper concludes with a synthesis of governance gaps and opportunities, and notes that while emerging ecological engineering approaches provide distinct opportunities, there is a lack of comprehensive assessment beyond diagnosing potential financial, institutional, and political shortfalls. We therefore highlight the need for future research on the socio-ecological, spatial/scalar, and political dimensions of EbA and Eco-DRR. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract This paper examines the association between slow-onset natural hazards and the temporal aspects of human mobility— that is, short-term and long-term internal migration in the context of north-west Bangladesh. The paper contributes to the current understanding on the multiple stressors influencing individual's decisions to migrate from their rural origin, while examining the interplay between factors such as tipping points of migration (identified as drivers of migration), socio-demographic variables, and the contexts of slow-onset natural hazards. The analysis is based on empirical data relating to disadvantaged internal migrants or their household members living in drought-prone and riverine areas. A binary logistic regression model is used to analyse how various factors influence the temporality of migration. Key findings indicate that in the context of the natural hazards studied, financial stress at the household level and lack of economic resources are strongly associated with people's decisions to migrate for the-long or short-term. Based on such findings, the paper argues for diversified policy interventions for different groups of internal migrants in order to address difficulties associated with their mobility to and settlement at new locations. Highlights • Association between hazard and temporal aspect of human mobility is explored. • Demographic and economic vulnerability are linked with internal migration. • Both the hazard context and socio-economic factor influence migration. • Policy interventions for different groups of internal migrants is necessary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For most developing countries at risk of disasters and climate change, adopting structural measures to reduce disaster risks remain a challenge. This paper presents findings of a study conducted through a mixed methods design in a flood risk city in Malawi, Sub-Saharan Africa. The study assesses the city's vulnerability to floods and actions being taken to reduce the risks. It then investigates how resettlement is being promoted as one such risk reduction measure. The study finds multiple vulnerability factors, including unsafe construction practices, poor drainage systems, unregulated solid waste disposal, institutional incapacity, inadequacy of land, settlements in high risk areas, deforestation, siltation of rivers and national disaster risk reduction policies that neglect urban areas. However, efforts to tackle underlying causes of vulnerability are wanting. One positive programme is a slum upgrading pilot project implemented by non-state actors that also lacks government support. In the case of resettlement, its planning and execution is fraught with multiple challenges emanating from haphazard planning and lack of community participation. The paper argues that the emphasis on resettlement is obscuring the key drivers of vulnerability, while simultaneously exposing both resettled and those left behind to further risks. It, therefore, calls for caution when planning and implementing disaster risk reduction policies that have the potential to create new forms of vulnerability to hazards or exacerbate them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Both scholars and global policy point to the need for, and effectiveness of, locally-led and collaborative disaster and climate change practices. However, there is a need for analysing how these collaborative approaches are developed and used in practice in different contexts. This paper outlines the use of collaborative approaches by a climate change and disaster community of practice across seven local government areas in the Northern Rivers region, New South Wales, Australia. The region has experienced multiple large-scale flood and bushfire disasters since 2017. This ethnographic study uses established collaborative governance and adaptive governance theoretical frameworks to draw findings from: lived experiences of researchers, 22 interviews with diverse stakeholder groups, in-person and online events and the first author's research diary. The findings indicate that collaborative practice in response to disasters and climate change has resulted in both effective outcomes and multi-dimensional challenges, which have lasting implications for communities across the Northern Rivers region. Three critical leverage points for enhanced collaboration and effectiveness were identified. First, improved use and flow of information such as climate projections and place- and needs-based information. Second, mindset shifts that value community knowledge and contributions, and improved practice through enhancing skills in community development and community-led recovery in disaster and climate change practitioners. Lastly, collectively moving from reactive to proactive responses to climate change and disasters. These insights provide an opportunity for improving the design of community-based risk reduction programs and multi-stakeholder governance arrangements into the future, in the state of New South Wales and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Climate change is worsening the severity and increasing the frequency of certain hazard events, thus requiring more financing for disaster mitigation or climate change adaptation. A wide range of financial tools is emerging to finance projects reducing hazard impacts on communities. Several of these tools have resilience bonds in their titles, and one is specifically known as Resilience Bonds. To evaluate the utility and effectiveness of new financing tools, we studied various available financial mechanisms for raising funds for disaster management and resilience projects. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review of the literature and application of financial tools in enhancing community resilience against weather-related disasters since 2000. We also present findings from our interviews with finance and bond experts to unpack the existing trends in financing disaster resilience projects. Our review of the application of issued and proposed bonds with resilience goals shows that these bonds have various project scopes, with most bonds utilized for financing flood and hurricane resilience measures. Additionally, in the reviewed literature, bonds with resilience goals are primarily issued by government entities, indicating a substantial gap and opportunities for the private capital market to invest in disaster resilience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

System transformation is important for low-lying coastal cities to adapt to natural disasters related to climate change, but not all forms of transformation enable adaptation. An important question is how an enduring system change undermines the enabling conditions for reducing vulnerability. This paper addresses the relationship between society-wide transformation and vulnerability reduction. A case study of Macao is used to explain structural vulnerabilities to storm surges in the context of a historic social change process marked by the end of colonial rule. The post-colonial regime seeks political legitimacy from extraordinary economic performance. The capitalist growth model has created new and resilient urban spaces, but reproduced the vulnerabilities of the older ones. The transformation has resulted in a perverse social contract and increased dependence on a shadow regime, undermining the social agency for change. We deconstruct the perceived legitimacy of transformation and examine the social and political consequences of performance legitimization. A society-wide transformation that seeks legitimacy from an unsustainable practice is a recipe for maladaptation. Socio-political realities mediate the effects of transformative social change. Our conclusions highlight the importance of analyzing transformation as an enduring system change. This requires framing the disruptive processes and impacts of transformation as a determinant and explicitly accounting for their socio-temporal dimensions in conceptualizing the non-linear relationship between transformation and vulnerability reduction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Migration out of hazard-prone areas presents significant opportunities for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Alongside and intermingled with opportunistic migration there has always been relocation to escape, particularly from calamity, disaster and warfare. As climate change is considered a likely driver of migration, the literature encompasses a debate as to whether or not migration can be considered to be adaptation. This paper investigates the concept of voluntary within-country migration as an adaptation strategy to reduce disaster risk in Australia. We refer to this internal migration as relocation. The paper examines results of research carried out in Australia at the time of recent and extensive disasters, where opportunities were presented to examine household attitudes towards relocation in the face of future disasters of similar extent. Individuals׳ attitudes towards relocation were ascertained within an adaptation and mitigation context, at a time of emerging longer-term climate change government policy that advocates retreat from hazard-prone locations. The paper examines demographic data to reveal who is likely to leave or stay. Policy implications of relocation strategies as climate change adaptation strategy within a developed nation are discussed. This research concludes that relocation is a strategy available to some as part of an extensive range of responses to extreme weather events but undertaking unsupported resettlement is not always an option for reasons of family commitment, livelihood opportunities, financial constraints and emotional ties. Those who remain, and those who leave a hazard-prone location may both demonstrate a capacity for adaptation and resilience. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) (2015–2030) was specifically initiated to advance Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) policy globally, to further understand the complexity of disaster risk in our contemporary time. Despite the potency of the framework, its implementation remains low at the local level. This paper provides a portrait of the intellectual stance of SFDRR studies. Our bibliometric exploration over the survey period of 2015–2019 shows a total of 34 documents with an annual percentage growth of 15.9%, which implies the increase of research on SFDRR during the period of analysis. The UK ranked first in terms of the highest number of corresponding authors during the study period. In addition, the UK was top on the most cited country on the SFDRR documents indexed in WOS from 2015 to 2019, with a sizeable chunk of developed countries on the top. This paper recommends researchers (from well off countries) across climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction intellectual domains should encourage research collaborations which will improve teamwork with Universities and other research councils in transitions countries in a bid to improve their ability to inter alia, development of policies and communication of research outcomes to the final user. This paper concludes that public policymakers and stakeholders working at the local government level should rejig strategies towards implementing the SFDRR and other international frameworks of this manner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Disasters and subsequent recovery efforts often reinforce social inequality and marginalization, hampering sustainable development paths. This paper presents an analysis of inequality and marginalization effects of post-disaster reconstruction from a risk governance perspective. Using a mixed-methods approach, we examine the Fischerdorf and Natternberg districts of the German city of Deggendorf, severely affected by the 2013 floods in Europe. The findings show that social inequality and marginalization affected housing reconstruction (and vice versa) in unexpected ways. Uninsured groups (such as the elderly and migrant homeowners) received prompt, ad-hoc support from state and civil society actors, while insured homeowners (mostly higher-income groups) experienced ongoing disputes between state and market actors that hampered their recovery. Some marginalized groups could not access state support, as various aspects of cultural diversity were not adequately considered. This fostered, and created new, patterns of inequality and risk. The ad-hoc engagement of civil society was crucial, but insufficient, to fully buffer the effects of inequality and marginalization resulting from formal recovery processes. We conclude that it is critical to give more attention to the interplay, and power constellations, between state, market and civil society actors to facilitate sustainable recovery and development – by counteracting potential inequality and marginalization effects. Increased consideration of cultural diversity and the support of citizens who play dual roles (and can mediate between different actors) was identified to be vital in this context. We thus call for increased research into the issue of complementary city–citizen rights and responsibilities in risk reduction and adaptation planning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent years have seen a growing emphasis on the mainstreaming and integration of climate change strategies to make social protection systems more adaptive and effective for tackling mounting climate-induced vulnerability. However, little is known about the extent to which climate change concerns are being incorporated into social protection systems and what drives such mainstreaming and integration. Employing a building blocks framework for mainstreaming and political settlement theory, we assess the progress made in such efforts in Bangladesh, and provide a political economy analysis of relevant policies, strategies, and qualitative empirical data. While the findings suggest that there is no distinct alignment between the growth of social protection and particular forms of political settlements, we demonstrate that the dominant ruling party shows strong political will for the mainstreaming of climate strategies into development policies; yet it does so by managing subsistence crises, adopting a top-down and techno-managerial approach to social protection to give short-term relief from climate vulnerabilities at the expense of making the schemes adaptive. Instead of improving performance by implementing programmes strictly and disciplining local actors, the dominant ruling party maintains a clientelist structure that placates elite interests, showcasing performance of developmental interventions through corrupt reporting practices. Consequently, we argue that the mainstreaming and integration process should adopt a rights-based transformative approach to social protection and employ a locally led process of adaptation decision-making in order to strengthen political capabilities of citizens and to create more just, equitable and sustainable outcomes for the poor. • The paper shows the underlying politics for the mainstreaming of climate concerns into social protection in Bangladesh. • Data suggest a symbiotic arrangement between political elites, bureaucrats and donors drives this mainstreaming. • The dominant party shows strong political support for the mainstreaming. • However, policies fail to outline how climate concerns should be integrated with social protection system. • Clientelist politics and politics of visibility work in practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Governance is central to Disaster Risk Management (DRM) in the 21st Century. In order to enhance the risk management capabilities of countries and the institutions responsible for carrying out DRM tasks, new approaches to governance should be explored. In heeding this claim, the Enhancing Risk Management Capabilities Guidelines creates a list of recommendations for how governance and management measures can support work in each of the DRM phases and across them. These guidelines are built around the SHIELD model, encompassing a set of strategic recommendations across six identified key themes: (1) Sharing Knowledge; (2) Harmonizing Capacities; (3) Institutionalizing Coordination; (4) Engaging Stakeholders; (5) Leveraging Investments; and finally, (6) Developing Communication. This paper presents each of these recommendations, and discusses why they should be seen as central aspects of the future of DRM in which governance is central. In addition, the paper reflects on the process of crafting the guidelines, and the issues inherent in attempting to propose suggestions and recommendations across a range of complex topics in the domain of disaster management. The guidelines have been produced as part of the H2020-project ESPREssO (Enhancing Synergies for disaster prevention in the European Union) and are freely available online: http://www.espressoproject.eu/images/deliverables/ESPREssO_D5.4.pdf. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Climate crisis requires intergenerational groups' participation to reduce their vulnerability and to promote disaster risk mitigation public policies. This paper analyzes what and how social innovations can nurture risk mitigation public policies to enhance flood resilience in small cities. A mixed-methods approach, which considered a survey with 231 participants (54% women, 45% men, and 1% non-identified) and the facilitation of a seminar with participatory methodologies, was implemented between August and October 2021, engaging municipal secretariats, civil defense, an NGO, schools, and residents of São Luiz do Paraitinga, Brazil. Most participants (205 out of 231 surveyed respondents) indicated that floods are the main hazards, and 90% stated that municipal authorities should lead prevention measures prioritizing ten social innovation actions to avoid and reduce the disaster risks. The survey's results were shared during a seminar that included serious gaming activities to identify, discuss and formulate implementation pathways (how, when, with whom, with what resources) for the prioritized social innovation actions. Among the measures are prevention and evacuation plans, which were significantly correlated (0.749), as well as natural areas restoration and conservation plans, risk areas tours, and children and youth engagement in disaster risk reduction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Heatwaves, droughts and wildfires in 2022 raised questions about how prepared the UK is for extreme events and how they might become more frequent in the future. This paper reviews the implications of climate change for current emergency planning, and for emergency planning as an adaptation to climate change, using the UK as an example. There are seven key implications for current operational emergency planning: risk assessment needs to consider a broader range of events and changing likelihoods, a long-term perspective is necessary, response capabilities may need to be enhanced, some types of events will become less frequent but will not be eliminated, training and exercises need to consider novel events, public engagement and messaging needs to be revised to reflect increased severity of events, and improving resilience is necessary to reduce the need for emergency response. Many organisations include emergency planning as part of their climate change adaptation toolkit. However, relying on current or enhanced emergency planning procedures is unlikely to be a sufficient adaptation to a changing climate. Improved resilience in some sectors will reduce the need for emergency planning and response, but it will not be feasible to improve resilience everywhere: the focus for emergency planning is therefore likely to evolve to reflect diverging impacts of climate change in and between communities. Achieving a balance between measures to increase resilience and measures to manage events requires a discussion on appropriate standards for resilience and definitions of 'emergency'. Improving the coordination between emergency planning and climate change adaptation is essential to reduce current and future risks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the mainstreaming of uncertainty in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) using as a case South and Southeast Asia, a region highly vulnerable to a wide range of natural disasters. Improvements in the implementation of DRR and CCA at the community and regional levels can be realized when the underlying uncertainties are understood and made transparent by all those involved in the science, practice and decision making of natural hazard management. This theme has been explored in a think tank fashion through knowledge elicitation and sharing among experts in the research community as well as practitioners and policy advisers with extensive experience with and insight into DRR and CCA at the regional and/or local levels. The intended result has been the identification of the means by which the capacity to integrate uncertainty can be developed. In this elicitation process, sources of uncertainty associated with the implementation of best practices in DRR and CCA at the regional and local levels. The results of presented are considered by the stakeholders involved to be valuable in expanding capacity to plan and implement more effective DRR and CCA policies and measures particularly at the community level where uncertainty plays a central role for those most vulnerable to current and future climate extreme events, and socio-economic constraints and changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: The integration of risk reduction and climate change adaptation has become an urgent task in addressing increasing urban risk more effectively and efficiently. This paper analyses the extent to which climate change adaptation is integrated into the policies and regulatory frameworks that guide urban risk reduction in Nicaragua, and discusses related progress. The results reveal significant progress in integrating climate change adaptation into the policy and regulatory frameworks of the three relatively new fields of (a) disaster risk reduction, (b) environmental management and (c) urban planning. They show that differences in the degree of integration relate to the development and updates to policy instruments in each field, and the extent to which they are related to the implementation of international climate change agreements. Although initially climate change adaptation integration was focused on the protection of natural resources in general, and food production in particular, since 2008 authorities have shown increasing interest in a more comprehensive and integrated approach. Nevertheless, the integration of climate change adaptation into disaster risk reduction and urban planning still lags behind the advances made in the environmental management field. It is concluded that in order to achieve greater and more coherent integration of CCA and, ultimately, improve the way climate-related risks is dealt with, urban authorities need to systematically review current policies and regulations to assess the synergies and gaps. This requires inter-sectoral and participative work with the actors concerned at national and local level, as well as the establishment of related monitoring and learning mechanisms. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Climate change contributes to the increasing frequency and severity of floods around the globe. Developing countries are being disproportionally affected. In 2010, Pakistan witnessed one of the worst floods in its history. One-fifth of the country was severely affected, leading to major economic losses and casualties. Thus, it is imperative to understand climate change and flood risk perception for designing flood risk reduction and climate change adaptation strategies. This study examines flood risk perception and psychological distance to climate change of rural communities along the Indus and Chenab rivers in Muzaffargarh district, Pakistan. Flood risk perception was measured using three main components, i.e., awareness about floods, worry (about floods), and preparedness. Psychological distance to climate change was quantified using five dimensions, i.e., psychological, geographic, social, temporal, and uncertainty. Yamane sampling method was used, and 365 samples were collected. The data was collected using household surveys from rural communities. Descriptive statistics, chi-square test, ANOVA-test, and Pearson's correlation were performed. Results indicate that overall flood risk perception and psychological distance to climate change was moderate in a high flood risk area. A negative correlation was also observed between uncertainty and worry. Regression analyses indicate a strong positive influence of homeownership on flood risk perception and the converse impact on the psychological distance to climate change. This study can help integrate the philosophies of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. The paper also highlights the need to improve risk communication strategies to help people understand climate change and its impacts, adopt precautionary measures, and reduce flood risks. • Flood risk perception is vital for risk reduction. • Psychological distance explains willingness to adapt. • Psychological distance and flood risk perception varies spatially. • Worry and uncertainty are negatively correlated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Risk to health from extreme heat is gaining attention in scholarship and policy. Demographic and socio-economic factors affect the extent to which a person is at risk from extreme heat, whilst empirical research of social vulnerability to heat outside a 'Western' context is relatively limited. Many countries still rely on expert judgements to draw locally specific context for heat vulnerability assessment. Yet, their view might not be evidence-informed and the result is influenced by who are involved. This paper reflects this point by eliciting expert views of social heat vulnerability in Taiwan through an expert questionnaire survey using the Analytic Hierarchy Process method, and the result was compared to existing empirical research. Our study finds that experts consider factors related to adaptive capacity, especially societal support, as the most important; but rate gender and ethnicity as the least important. Although experts point to the importance of adaptive capacity, there are relatively few empirical studies to date in societal support, and the low priority given to gender and ethnicity also contradicts prior empirical research. For heat risk assessment, our findings show that whilst systematic elicitation of expert judgement may help to fill gaps in empirical evidence specific to the local context, caution should be paid to the significant divergence with existing empirical data and expert opinions depending on who are selected to involve. [Display omitted] • Use expert judgement to prioritise heat vulnerability factors for Taiwan case. • Gender and ethnicity considered as the least important factors. • Adaptive capacity, especially support from societies/communities, is prioritised. • Expert views may disagree across disciplines, or with existing empirical research. • Need local research into social heat vulnerability for under-studied countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to complement the overwhelming focus on external partners in existing studies of capacity development for disaster risk reduction (DRR) or climate change adaptation (CCA), by exploring the perspectives of internal partners on challenges and possible solutions. 27 qualitative semi-structured interviews with experts, program officers and managers in five countries in the Southern African Development Community region were conducted. Three requisite and interdependent types of capacities—technical, processual, and contextual—in order to develop sustainability are suggested from the result. A typology of seven failures for partners to avoid when designing and implementing capacity development projects for DRR or CCA in the future are presented. The more of these failures occur, the less effective and sustainable capacity development becomes. For capacity development to be sustainable, more credit to internal partners, explicit opportunities for mutual learning and adaptive roles of external partners spanning from expert to coach need to be considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research paper examines multi-level governance structures and practices in Kenya as they relate to three interdependent agendas: climate change adaptation (CCA), disaster risk reduction (DRR), and land restoration (LR). We examine the governance landscape at county level and evaluate bridges and barriers to integration that are mediated by linkages across scales within Kenya's multi-level governance system. Based on analysis of qualitative data collected through key informant interviews and workshop discussions in three counties, we argue that subnational governance in Kenya has achieved elements of convergence among CCA, DRR, and LR. We refer to the interconnections among these three agendas and the synergies that can be realized through greater integration among them as the CDR nexus. The analysis indicates a highly decentralized stakeholder landscape, with a diverse mix ofnational, county, and civil society organizations providing leadership and funding that drives emergent CDR priorities. Convergence has been enabled by informal working platforms for inter-sectoral collaboration that have brought together national government, county government and civil society organizations, rather than through formal mechanisms of policy integration established in law. Maintaining integrative CDR practices while progressing on national priorities and commitments related to climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and land restoration is a fundamental governance challenge for the next decade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Climate change can lead to changes in the frequency, intensity, spatial extent, duration and timing of weather extremes, which pose disaster risks to exposed and vulnerable communities. Capacity development is a common disaster risk reduction (DRR) action and a climate change adaptation. There is a knowledge gap on what is involved in and what works in practice of bottom-up approaches to develop DRR capacity that incorporates local ownership, local knowledge and learning. The participatory research described in this paper applied Wenger's conceptual framework for social learning systems to establish a community of practice (CoP) for DRR between 2016 and 2017 in Maruleng Local Municipality, South Africa. Planning documents, event and reflection notes, office reports and artefacts were initially coded based on key concepts of the framework and further coded based on emerging sub-themes. The results showed that the framework provided a useful structure for designing capacity development that emphasises learning and organically integrates local knowledge. Structuring capacity development as a social learning system has the potential to make the CoP's learning effort self-sustaining and shift the focus of capacity development from a specific task to a long-term common interest shared by CoP members. The framework, however, did not provide adequate consideration for institutional challenges such as high leadership turnover and limited political power of the CoP, which impacted alignment, mutuality and membership – all of which are important to sustaining the CoP for capacity development. • Emphasising learning and local knowledge integration were strengths of a social learning system. • Social learning systems could shift the focus of capacity development from a task to the community. • Institutional flux and limited political power were major barriers to the CoP sustainability. • Building diversity into leadership, particularly political leadership, is key to success. • Wenger's framework was limited in addressing capacity development at a systemic level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Increasing impacts from disasters and climate hazards have prompted international efforts to promote the development of national disaster risk reduction and resilience (DRRR) strategies intended to reduce mortality and other losses. The development of such strategies is the subject of target E of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015–2030). Furthermore, an increasing understanding of the need to address the root causes of risk has led to calls for greater coherence between strategies that focus on DRRR, and those dedicated to climate change adaptation and sustainable development goals. The purpose of this paper is to increase knowledge on associated decision-making in general, and in Sweden in particular. We analyze the relevance and scope of a Swedish DRRR strategy, and identify drivers and barriers to integrated development and implementation. Based on document reviews, and interviews and group discussions with representatives in Sweden and six European countries, the results highlight a growing awareness that much remains to be learnt and shared between domains in order to progress towards integrated DRRR and more climate-proof sustainable development. In practice, most strategies are developed independently and related actors work in silos, leading to power struggles with negative impacts on national and local capacity. At the same time, windows of opportunity are appearing for the development of national DRRR strategies and increased policy coherence. We discuss these, and present some policy recommendations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]