Abstract
Adaptive social protection is a term used to better understand how social protection can reduce vulnerability to the impacts of climate change and disasters. Climate change and disasters present many challenges to sustainable social and economic development. Adaptive social protection instruments can enhance individual, household, and community resilience; reduce poverty and promote human development; and can be delivered on a large scale in support of disaster risk reduction and management. This chapter provides an overview of climate change and disasters, adaptation and mitigation, environmental change, social protection and sustainable adaptation, the concept of sustainable development, and a risk-adjusted social protection floor.
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The Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) is a 10-year plan to make the world safer from natural hazards (www.unisdr.org/we/coordinate/hfa.)
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Drolet, J.L. (2014). Adaptive Social Protection. In: Social Protection and Social Development. SpringerBriefs in Population Studies. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7878-8_4
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