Conclusions: Integrating natural hazards risk management and climate change adaptation through natural hazards planning

Abstract

A significant part of adapting to climate change involves learning from the many lessons found in planning for natural hazards and acting on this information. In the preceding chapters four imperatives have emerged that will be used to summarise our collective findings and structure a set of lessons to help stimulate and inform a still nascent dialogue among local, regional national and international role-players focused on one of the most pressing issues facing communities around the world-adapting to the effects of climate change.