Combining climate change, disasters, and sustainable development

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Many international policy documents and researchers are calling for a merger of climate change policy, disaster risk reduction (with a focus on water related disasters), and sustainable development (often from the viewpoint of infrastructure and safe livelihoods in floodplain areas). Is it useful to push such a top down approach and would it lead to better funding/resources on a local level, or is it better to work the other way around?

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  1. More critical comments also recommend a combination with poverty reduction or social protection. Theoretically this may make sense, but I'm worried all the combining will also combine budgets and leave little room to solve problems that are not combined but purely exist in one domain. Is it that from a practical hands on viewpoint multiple causes bring in more money to work with?

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  2. Karina Vink I am fully in support of your sentiments. To combine the three above topics is calling for a nothing to happen and it will yet again stay in the realm of the pure scientific committees, the workshops, the conference halls and lastly but most important the not-knowing-what-this-subject-is-about media running away with it! I do not think we can handle one at a time - to combine 3? haha