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Disaster Management

Environmental Aspects of Disaster Prevention and Adaptation

Within the overall cycle of disaster management (prevention, adaptation, preparedness, response, recovery, and rehabilitation), IETC’s niche lies in the pre-disaster phase of (a) identifying and managing the environmental dimensions of disasters, (b) in order to prevent and mitigate disasters.

In the biennia 2010-2011 and 2012-2013, IETC’s work programme will focus more on the implementation of concrete projects and initiatives at the national and local levels.

Keeping the entire disaster cycle in mind (Prevention, Adaptation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery/Rehabilitation), IETC’s new disaster challenges will have a more focused approach on prevention and adaptation for water-related disasters.

Water-related disasters in an urban watershed context require a unique approach to adaptation and management. Particularly, the environmental, socio-economic and structural processes affecting cities in the developing world accelerate rapid urbanization, population movement and population concentrations. These processes substantially increase vulnerability, particularly of low-income urban dwellers.

IETC’s disaster projects have inherently taken advantage of its other programmes on waste and ESTs. Its experiences in waste management have helped develop and implement the DEBRI Project in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, which focused on debris waste management. Understanding the need for proper technologies for forestry waste management shaped the project IETC undertook in the Banyumas district of Indonesia.

IETC’s disaster priorities focus on adaptation to water-related disasters in an urban context in order to assist cities in developing capacities to address the challenge. It look at the causal factors of urban risks to water-related disasters and understanding the interrelationships between the larger catchment and watershed areas, and cities. A broader awareness raising training on urban risk reduction was carried out in Wuxi City, China, to highlight these issues.

This priority will be operationalized by taking cognizance of IETC’s mandate on ESTs to look at technologies to effectively mitigate and reduce the environmental impacts of disasters. This includes decision support tools, management systems and technology support for integrated action, for reducing vulnerabilities and mitigating causes of water-related disasters and for catchment and watershed related adaptation and mitigation measures