Climate Disaster Risk Management—Risk Assessment and Green Recovery Planning: Core Concepts and Identification of Current Issues

There is the urgent need to adapt to climate change. Flooding affects 106 million people annually and causes the largest economic damage (USD 31 billion, annually). 6000 people are annually killed by flooding. This chapter addresses concept and definition of disasters, and flood disaster-related newly emerging issues from a theoretical and empirical perspective. More in specific, the chapter reviews foundational principles of resilient systems, increase in frequency and intensity of flood occurrence, differential effects based on geography and wealth, bifurcation of mitigation and adaptation planning and implementation, capacity and technology gaps, and climate justice issues discussed at COP27. The chapter concludes that an integrated framework and methodology for key issues are needed to help cities and communities develop a comprehensive, risk- and scientific, evidence-based flood adaptation, and recovery strategies and actions from a multiplicity of perspectives.