disaster risk reduction session 1: introduction; disaster risk reduction and the environment

Green Recovery And Reconstruction: Training Toolkit For Humanitarian Aid

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Disaster Risk Reduction

Session 1: Introduction; Disaster Risk

Reduction and the Environment

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Getting to Know You…

Please take the paper in front of you, fold it in half and write your name on one side.

Please pair-up and ask your partner the following questions: What is your name and organization you work with? What do you do? Have you ever been involved in a disaster risk reduction

program?

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Green Recovery and Reconstruction Toolkit

Developed by WWF and the American Red Cross

Based on a 5-year partnership formed after the 2004 tsunami between WWF, AmCross and partners in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Maldives

Designed for use globally after natural disasters and conflict

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10 Program ModulesGreen Guide to:

1. Opportunities for Green Recovery and Reconstruction: An Introduction

2. Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation

3. Environmental Impact Assessment Tools and Techniques

4. Strategic Site Selection and Development

5. Materials and the Supply Chain

6. Construction

7. Water and Sanitation

8. Livelihoods

9. Disaster Risk Reduction

10.Organizational Operations

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GRRT Principles

“Do no harm” to people and communities recovering from disaster by addressing environmental sustainability

Recognize that addressing the environment has multiple benefits

Take ownership Build back safer Be solution-oriented Emphasize the use of local knowledge

“Words to live by.” -- Ron Savage, OFDA

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Workshop Ground Rules

Mobiles silent

Be punctual

Stay on topic

Succinct -be brief

One conversation

at a time

Active listening

Other?

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The Main Point of this Workshop is to…

Incorporate an environmental perspective into DRR assessments

and interventions

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By the end of this workshop, you should be able to…

Describe the ways in which disaster risk and environmental conditions are linked

Identify a set of ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction activities that can enhance disaster risk reduction programs

Describe how disaster risk reduction activities can have negative impacts on the environment and how these impacts can be mitigated

Integrate environmental issues into typical DRR assessments

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Workshop Agenda

Session Topic

1 Introductions, disaster risk reduction and the environment

2 Environment-based DRR activities and assessments

LUNCH

3 Climate, risk and applying DRR to ecosystems

4 Ecosystem-based DRR exercise, workshopsummary

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Your Experience

Do any of you have a case study that you would like to present after lunch?

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Risk = Hazard x Vulnerability What is a hazard? What is vulnerability? How does the environment relate to

hazards and vulnerability?

Quick Review of Definitions

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Disaster Risk Reduction

“The practice of reducing disaster risks through systematic efforts to analyze and manage the causal factors of disasters.” (ISDR)

What are the main strategies to do this?

The full ISDR definition includes these elements: Reduced exposure to hazards Lessened vulnerability of people and property Wise management of land and the environment Improved preparedness for adverse events

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Definition of Ecosystem

Dynamic complexes of plants, animals and other living communities and the non-living environment interacting as functional units. Humans are an integral part of ecosystems. Source: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Synthesis.

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How is vulnerability linked to the environment?

1. Where people live – it may be a location threatened by one or more hazards.

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Here is one example (Brazil). Identify some other examples

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How is vulnerability linked to the environment?

2. Access to natural resources:

For economic use

To meet basic needs, for instance, water, fuel and shelter

What are examples?

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"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."

From: Our Common Future, World Commission on Environment and Development, Oxford University Press, 1987

What is the relationship between disaster risk reduction and environmental sustainability?

What is environmental sustainability?

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To be sustainable…

DRR actions Should be able to continue in the future, that is, they

are not short term, and Will not compromise capacity to meet needs in the

future, that is, we should not try to solve problems only to have them re-occur in the future

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Exercise: Hazards and the Environment

We will now explore in more detail the link between hazards and the environment

Each group will receive a picture of a hazard.

Discuss the picture and list, on a flip chart, all the environmental issues you can identify from the picture or the context of the picture.

Designate one person to present the results.

You have 10 minutes for this exercise . .

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Summary so far

Links between disaster risk & environment

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Ecosystem-basedDRR activities

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Mitigate neg. impactson the environment Integrate environment

into DRR assessm’ts

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Time to take a 15 minute break

Suggested Activities…..

Get some exerciseVisit unusual

placesGet to know the

other participants

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