Harmonized Perspectives - CDKN Global

ANNEX IGlossary of terms and concepts relevant to Disaster Risk ReductionAdaptationComprehensive global process on the possibility of understanding, support and local construction of theneed for nations, peoples and natural systems of poor countries to adapt, alter, modify, change oradjust, spontaneously or planned, in its structure and behavior to the economic and social activities,reducing social vulnerability and taking advantage of opportunities, in response to or anticipation ofexpected conditions, current, actual or projected, the variability or climate change, through mitigation,technology transfer and financial and investments.Ecosystem-based adaptationManagement, conservation and restoration or rehabilitation of ecosystems to ensure they continue toprovide services. It allows people to adapt to the impacts of climate change and have income. It isachieved with the establishment of protected areas by involving local communities and indigenouspeoples in their management.Agricultural biodiversityBroad mix of life forms (genes, species and ecosystems), including the human species for food andagricultural production.AgroforestryThese systems are formed in household production units by the combination of trees with cleancrops where production practices are implemented environmentally friendly, water and soil.Protected AreasConservation strategy for biodiversity, with various forms of management and from representativeregions and species to protect.BiodiversityBroad mix of life forms (genes, species and ecosystems), including the human species, a result of theevolutionary process, that interacts with each other and their environment, which has made the worlda habitable place and also unique, that offers a wide range of goods and services that sustain life.Climate Change (CC)Change in status of the global climate, which can be identified by changes in the average and orvariability of its properties, directly or indirectly caused by humans through the consumption of fossilfuels, deforestation and other practices, or by changes in currents the oceans, solar activity, volcaniceruptions and other natural factors that increases the concentration of greenhouse gases inthe atmosphere that are warming the earth's surface, and persists for decades or longer. Example: iceages or changes in the level of the oceans.ClimateGenera characteristics and long-term experience while at the same place. Ecological complexes:relationships between species and ecosystems.Indigenous knowledgeCluster complex knowledge, skills, practices and performances intertwined and mutually dependent,which still exist, developed by indigenous peoples with a extended history of interactions withthe natural and cultural environment that does not conflict with each other and has no definedboundaries, which includes language, attachment to context or place, spirituality and worldview, "inwhich" rational "or" objective "cannot be separated from the "sacred" or " intuitive" It is the ancestralknowledge that governs the lives of Indigenous Peoples, is dynamic, with a differentiatedrelationship with the outside world, evolving, reconstituted, recreated and revised by each successivegeneration of knowledge-holders.64