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What is the post-2015 development agenda? A look from the underlying disaster risk drivers

Juan Pablo Sarmiento (Extreme Events Research Institute, Florida International University, Florida, USA)

Disaster Prevention and Management

ISSN: 0965-3562

Article publication date: 4 June 2018

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to explore the current and projected impacts of the three post-2015 development agendas on the underlying disaster risk drivers (UDRD): the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Sustainable Development Goals, and the Paris COP21 Agreement.

Design/methodology/approach

The methodology is based on an ontological process, understood as an exhaustive analysis of the properties and relationships of an entity or subject of study.

Findings

The process characterized and linked the objectives proposed in the three agendas through the impact of the expected results on the underlying risk drivers. First, elements related to disaster risk within each agenda were identified. Then, in following the theory of change, a series of tools were used to identify domains of change, pathways, breakthroughs, and incremental outcomes that counteract the construction of disaster risk by acting on the underlying causes. It is essential that there be coherence, complementarity, and interdependence between the three agendas analyzed in order to transcend beyond the desired economic growth, and thus underpin true sustainable development by focusing on the UDRD.

Originality/value

Applying the theory of change constitutes a novel approach to identify the pathways or domains of change needed to integrate the three 2015 development agendas.

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Acknowledgements

This is an English translation from the article “Cuál es la agenda de desarrollo pos-2015? Una mirada desde los determinantes del riesgo de desastres” originally published by Juan Pablo Sarmiento in the Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos sobre Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres (REDER) on July 15, 2017.

Citation

Sarmiento, J.P. (2018), "What is the post-2015 development agenda? A look from the underlying disaster risk drivers", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 27 No. 3, pp. 292-305. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-03-2018-0088

Publisher

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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