Why we call it “climate change” when we mean “environmental change”? The urgent need to reframe natural hazards policyand research for effective, sustainable and equitable flood riskreduction.

• Autores: Anna Serra Llobet
• Localización: Second International Future Challenges in Sustainable UrbanPlanning & Territorial Management: Proceedings of the SUPTM 2024 conference / Salvador García-Ayllón Veintimilla (dir. congr.), José Luis Miralles García (dir. congr.), 2024, ISBN 978-84-17853-82-2, págs. 170-173
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In the context of global environmental change, safety, equity and financial implications offloods are big. To find durable solutions we must look at the entire problem, not only climate changebut also land use change. Through international examples, in this paper we analyzed how movingthe narrative from “global environmental change” to “climate change” is now shifting the responsibility for risk reduction and might compromise disaster risk reduction efforts in the near future.