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Project title

Enhancing Integration of Disaster Risk and Climate Change Adaptation into Irish Emergency Planning

Primary Funding Agency

Environmental Protection Agency

Co-Funding Organisation(s)

n/a

Lead Organisation

University College Cork (UCC)

Lead Applicant

Martin Le Tissier

Project Abstract

The project objectives are to characterize how climate change will affect short- and medium-term change to vulnerable communities and sectors in Ireland and how this affects the emergency/incident types identified in the Strategic Emergency Management (SEM) National Structures and Framework. The project will inculcate experiences and best practices from the international arena through participation of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. The project objectives will be met through a global literature review to identify how approaches to Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Management (DRM)and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) are juxtaposed and characterize opportunities for synergies across the different domains in the context of community and sector vulnerability in Ireland, and the policy instruments currently in place that address DRR and CCA activities and actions. This will be validated and revised by engagement with communities and sectors most likely to be impacted by climate change affected short term change.The outcomes from the project will identify synergies between DRR and DRM with CCA and provide guidance for both the assessment for climate induced enhanced vulnerability to change (using the Climate Ireland platform) and how this can be incorporated into the implementation of the SEM National Structures and Framework.

Grant Approved

�82,342.35

Research Hub

Climate Change

Research Theme

Ireland's Future Climate, its Impacts, and Adaptation Options

Start Date

02/03/2020

Initial Projected Completion Date

01/03/2021