Integrating Climatic Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation into Project Management Cycle

Disasters are severe disruptions in the normal functioning of a community or a society due to exposures of vulnerable conditions to hazardous events, leading to damage and losses to human, material, economic, or environmental assets. To reduce the vulnerability to extreme climatic events, long term, medium, short and immediate measures are needed to be identified and integrated into the planning processes. Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Disaster Management (DM) together form part of Disaster Risk Management (DRM), while the combined processes of Climate Change Mitigation (CCM), Climate Change Adaptation (CCA), DRR, and DM contribute to the overall process of sustainable development. The present study deals with the similarity in the goals of DRR and CCA, discuss about their area of convergence and divergence, and processes a way by which it can be integrated into Project Management Cycle.