CONTENTS Foreword ix Acknowledgments xi Executive Summary xiii About the Primer xv Acronyms and Abbreviations xxi SECTION 01 Understanding the Impacts of Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management 1 A.Primer Objectives 1 B.The Imperatives of Action 2 C.Developing a Resilient City of the Future 4 D.Mainstreaming Policy and Practice for Local Impact 7 E.The Risks of Doing Nothing 9 SECTION 02 Explaining Climate Change Impacts and Disaster Risk Management 13 A. What Is Mitigation (Climate Change Management)? 15 B. What Is Mitigation (Disaster Risk Management)? 19 C. What Is Adaptation? 23 D.What about Sea-Level Rise? 28 1. What Are the Effects and Impacts? 29 2.What Are Some Mitigation and Adaptation Sound Practices? 30 E.What about Temperature? 30 1. What Are the Effects and Impacts? 31 2. What Are Some Mitigation and Adaptation Sound Practices? 31 F. What about Precipitation? 31 1. What Are the Effects and Impacts? 32 2. What Are Some Mitigation and Adaptation Sound Practices? 32 G.What about Resilience? 32 1. How Is Resilience Enhanced? 34 2. Are There Sound Practices? 34 H.What about Extreme Events? 34 1. What Are the Effects and Impacts? 35 2. What Are Some Sound Practices? 37 SECTION 03 Assessment Exercise: Discovery of a Hot Spot 41 A.Completing the City Typology and Risk Characterization Matrix 42 1.Select Climate Change Team 42 2.Hold Series of Workshops 43 3.Complete the Matrix 43 B.Additional Testing for a Hot Spot 49 C.Is Your City a Hot Spot? 51 SECTION 04 Information Exercise : Creating a City Information Base 55 A.The Workbook 55 B.The Participatory Process 56 C.The Annotated Maps 56 1.City/Community Base Map 57 2.City'/Community Socio-Economic Profile Map 58 3.City Hazard Profile Map 58 4.The Future Growth Map 58 5.City Institutional Map 59 D.The Framework 60 SECTION 05 Sound Practice Examples of Adaptation and Mitigation 65 Sound Practice 1 : Organizational Structure and Information Base 66 Sound Practice 2 : Institutional Mechanism 67 Sound Practice 3 : Ownership by Line Departments 69 Sound Practice 4 : Preparing a Climate Change Strategy 69 Sound Practice 5 : Generating Public Awareness 72 Sound Practice 6 : Accounting and Reporting for Mitigation : The GHG Inventory 73 Sound Practice 7 : Catastrophic Risk Financing and Transfer Mechanisms 74 Sound Practice 8 : Developing a Disaster Risk Management System Considering Climate Change Impacts 75 Sound Practice 9 : Climate Change Mitigation-Energy Sector 78 Sound Practice 10 : Climate Change Mitigation-Transport Sector 79 Sound Practice 11 : Climate Change Mitigation--Built Environment and Densification 82 Sound Practice 12 : Climate Change Mitigation--Forestry and Urban Greenery 84 Sound Practice 13 : Climate Change Mitigation--Finance and Financial Mechanisms 86 Sound Practice 14 : Adaptation-Infrastructure Sector 87 Soumd Practice 15 : Adaptation-Water Conservation and Flooding 89 Sound Practice 16: Adaptation-Public Health 91 SECTION 06 Conclusions 97 Annex A : Worldwide Programs and Organizations on Climate Change and Hazards 103 Annex B : Sources of Technical and Financial Assistance 107 Annex C : Examples of Relevant World Bank Projects 109 Annex D : Resource Guide 111 Natural Hazards 111 Disaster Risk Management 112 Hot Spots 114 Climate Change Adaptation and Vulnerability 115 Case Study Sources 120 City Programs (Sound Practice) 126 Contents of CD-ROM 131 Glossary141 Notes 147 Index151