This paper explores the links between DRM and low carbon development and thereby sheds light on a new and emerging research and development agenda.
It elaborates the carbon and greenhouse gas implications of DRM interventions and post-disaster reconstruction practices, drawing on case studies from flood risk reduction, coastal protection and drought risk reduction and considers how post-disaster housing and energy supply reconstruction can be ‘greened’. The paper makes suggestions about how the carbon implications of DRM measures could be accounted for in a coherent manner.
