A survey of governance approaches to ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction: Current gaps and future directions

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...