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Disaster Risk Management For Coastal Tourism Destinations Responding To Climate Change A Practical Guide For Decision Makers Response Resilience Risk Risk Assessment Vulnerability The provision of assistance or intervention during or immediately after a disaster to meet the life preservation and basic subsistence needs of those people affected. It can be of an immediate, shortterm, or protracted duration. The capacity of a system, community or society potentially exposed to hazards to adapt, by resisting or changing in order to reach and maintain an acceptable level of functioning and structure. This is determined by the degree to which the social system is capable of organizing itself to increase its capacity for learning from past disasters for better future protection and to improve risk reduction measures. The probability of harmful consequences, or expected losses (deaths, injuries, property, livelihoods, economic activity disrupted or environment damaged) resulting from interactions between natural or humaninduced hazards and vulnerable conditions. A methodology to determine the nature and extent of risk by analyzing potential hazards and evaluating existing conditions of vulnerability that could pose a potential threat or harm to people, property, livelihoods and the environment on which they depend. The conditions determined by physical, social, economic and environmental factors or processes, which increase the susceptibility of a community to the impact of hazards. 8
Disaster Risk Management For Coastal Tourism Destinations Responding To Climate Change A Practical Guide For Decision Makers Executive Summary Introduction This Handbook, entitled, Disaster Risk Management for Coastal Tourism Destinations Responding to Climate Change, brings together three important aspects of the environment-development dichotomy with the practice of disaster management: 1 Tourism as a strategy for economic development; 2 Climate change impacts; and 3 The vulnerability of coastal communities to natural disasters. These aspects of the development agenda are brought into focus for the purpose of maintaining tourism destination integrity and resilience in the face of more frequent natural disasters and their related hazards. The driving force has been the predominant impact on coastal tourism communities, globally, with huge losses of life, livelihoods, property and infrastructure. There has been a surge of new and large-scaled resorts in coastal areas, supported by the tourism value chain including communities of workers, transportation services and industry suppliers, among others. This Handbook is therefore an important tool for planners and managers requiring tailor-made guidance for improving the resilience of coastal tourism destinations. 1 To increase the capacity of coastal tourism communities to better prepare for and respond to natural disaster emergencies; 2 To mainstream disaster risk reduction into coastal tourism destination planning and development; and thereby, 3 To support local climate change adaptation efforts. The Handbook is premised on the fact that the impacts of disasters can be substantially reduced if vulnerable communities are fully informed about possible hazards and have participated in the formulation of risk and crisis management plans. It adapts UNEP’s Awareness and Preparedness for Emergencies at the Local Level (APELL) process, used since the late 1980s to prepare communities against technological disasters. The Handbook also emphasizes that policy makers are responsible for creating a responsive and well-resourced framework for action. Disaster response, however, is primarily a local level activity that requires devolution of authority and responsibility to the competent local government agencies and their associated networks. 9
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