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Climate change is, in effect, a potential hazard driver or a potential hazard diminisher, rather than being a hazard itself.
First, climate change affecting disaster risk and disasters, demonstrating too much emphasis on the single hazard driver and diminisher of climate change.
First, climate change is one hazard driver amongst many; it is one factor influencing certain hazards with the potential to contribute to disasters where vulnerability and exposure exist.
Weichselgartner and Pigeon examine the role of knowledge and knowledge application for the SFDRR, followed by Kelman exploring the SFDRR's approach to the specific hazard driver of climate change.
Climate change is an example of a major environmental hazard driver and diminisher, indicating the intricacies and complexities involved in trying to understand the overlaps, connections, and interactions amongst environmental hazards.
Recognizing that climate change is a key hazard driver (Kelman 2015), for example, highlights the opportunity to explicitly incorporate the gradual effects of climate change when planning to reduce disaster risks.
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The limitation in the SFDRR's approach is in not treating certain other hazard drivers and hazards similarly.
Many good practice examples of resilience exist, to climate change impacts and to other hazard drivers and hazards.
Yet it is unclear why climate is treated as being so special, since the SFDRR does not treat other hazards or hazard drivers similarly.
When a disaster has manifested and reconstruction is in progress, then opportunities should be grasped to factor climate change into the rebuilding amongst other hazard drivers and hazard diminishers, which would be part of "Build Back Better".
A key component for the identification of hazard drivers in complex mixture exposure is the EDA approach, where combinations of non-target/target screening [31] with bioanalytical tools can be applied in different tiers to identify drivers of toxicity or in combination with toxicity information or hazardous properties of encountered substances [35, 42].
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