Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management for Sustainable Development

The main purpose of this work is ascertaining the relationship assisting between climate change and disaster management towards sustainable development. Without doubt, the most important environmental issues we face today are climate change. Poorer developing countries are especially vulnerable to climate change because of their geographic exposure, low incomes and greater reliance on climate sensitive sectors, particularly agriculture. People exposed to the most severe climate- related hazards are often those least able to cope with the associated impacts, due to their limited adaptive capacity. This in turns poses multiple threats to economic growth, wider poverty reduction and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Within this context, there is growing recognition of the potential role of social protection as a response to the multiple risks and short and long term shocks and stresses associated with climate change.