International Workshop

Building Resilience to the Risk of Compound and Cascading
Disasters in the Context of Climate Change(Launch of the New e-learning Course on AP-PLAT)
21 Jan, 2022

Implementing DRR-CCA Integration
through Idea of Adaptive Governance
Dr. Indrajit Pal

Associate Professor & Chair,Disaster Preparedness Mitigation and Management
Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
indrajit-pal@ait.ac.th

DR. INDRAJIT PAL
Assistant Professor and Program Chair
Program: Disaster Preparedness,Mitigation and Management, SET-SERD
Specialization:
Disaster Risk Governance, Hazard andRisk Assessment, Risk Perceptions,
CBDRM, Public Health Risk, GIS &Remote Sensing in DRM, Public Health
Risk Assessment and Climate Change
Adaptation
Email: indrajit-pal@ait.ac.th

Department of Development and Sustainability (DDS)
School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD)
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)DPMM Academic Program
Committee ChairAdaptive Governance●

Adaptive governance is an emergent form of environmental governance that isincreasingly called upon to coordinate resource management regimes in the face ofthe complexity and uncertainty associated with rapid environmental change.

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Adaptive governance is the social conditions that enable ecosystem managementthrough the implementation of adaptive management (Folke et al. 2005, Gundersonand Light 2006).

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Although the term “adaptive governance” is not exclusively applied to thegovernance of social-ecological systems, related research represents a significant
outgrowth of literature on resilience, social-ecological systems, and environmentalgovernance.

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Adaptive governance encompasses the social contexts that collectively mediate
what humans want from ecological systems.

(Source: Amr AbdelMeguid)Steps for Disaster & Climate Resilient Adaptive Governance(Source: Maya Norton, 2016)

Adaptive Governance
Multiple governance levels
Stateactors

Non-stateactors

Multi-level governance and cross-scale interation
ADAPTIVE GOVERNANCE
Department of Development and Sustainability (DDS)
School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD)
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)Principles of Adaptive Governance●Empowering - local communities●

Developing human capacities●

Encouraging grass roots participation●

Instigating stakeholders dialogue for concerted action●

Facilitating national to local and local to national reach●Strengthening gender balance●

Building partnerships for action●

Providing practical information for policy makers●Learning by doing building on local knowledge●Ensuring accountability and promoting responsibility●

Documenting processes and disseminating lessons learned(Source: Amr AbdelMeguid)Interlink of DRR and CCA
Non-disasteraspects of CCA

ClimateDisasterCommonChangeRisk
concerns
Adaptation
Reduction

Climate related hazards(e.g. floods, typhoons,droughts)
and their impacts
COLLABORATION
Adaptive governance
Department of Development and Sustainability (DDS)
School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD)
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)Other hazards

Features of Climate & Disaster Resilient Adaptive Governance(Source: Victor Galaz, 2016)

How to integrate DRR-CCA through adaptive governanceIntegrating in scale of concerns

Collaboration

03oCordIntegrating
DRR-CCAthrough AG01

Negotiationonitina

Global public problems
Transboundary
NationalLocal

Integrating multiple actors

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Integrating multiple governance levels
GlobalRegional
National and sub-national

Department of Development and Sustainability (DDS)
School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD)
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)Global, regional organizations
National, sub-national government
BusinessCivil society

Example of DRR-CCA integration through adaptive governanceSource: Mall, 2019
Department of Development and Sustainability (DDS)
School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD)
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)THANK YOU
indrajit-pal@ait.ac.th