CLUP

GUIDEBOOK

Climate and Disaster Risk

Assessment (CDRA)
Presented by Group 1
 Supplemental Guidelines on
Mainstreaming Climate and Disaster Risks
in the Comprehensive Land Use Plan

• will help local governments formulate climate and disaster risk-sensitive

comprehensive land use plans and zoning ordinances that would guide the
allocation and regulation of land use so that exposure and vulnerability of
population, infrastructure, economic activities and the environment to natural
hazards and climate change can be minimized or even prevented. The resulting
improvements in land use planning and zoning processes will strengthen the
ability of local governments to achieve their sustainable development
objectives given the challenges posed by climate change and natural hazard.

• The Supplemental Guidelines provides a step-by-step process on assessing the

climate and disaster risks of a locality.
In terms of resources and lives, urban areas are more exposed to and devastated by
climate-related hazards because they are home to a high concentration of population,
properties, commercial activities, and public institutions. This exposure to hazards is
expected to increase due to rapid urbanization, unregulated occupation of hazard
prone areas and more extreme climate-related hazards.

The Supplemental Guidelines introduces a six-step CDRA process to analyze risks and
vulnerabilities of exposed elements namely: people, urban areas, agriculture, forestry and
fishery production areas, and other infrastructure that are associated with natural hazards and
climate change.

The CDRA facilitates the identification of priority decision areas and allow the
identification of various disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation
measures in the form of land use policy interventions (i.e. land use policies, zoning
provisions, support legislation, programs and projects) to address current risks and
vulnerabilities and prevent future ones.
 Climate and Disaster
Risk Assessment (CDRA)
CDRA is a methodology to understand and assess the potential impacts of
hazards to people and their properties. CDRA goes beyond the conventional
“risk assessment” as it incorporates climate-related hazards and their
prospective impacts in the characteristics of hazards.

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 THE CDRA PROCESS
The climate and disaster risk assessment (CDRA) intends to determine the level
of risks and vulnerabilities of areas and sectors in the municipality/city to
climate related hazards and potential impacts of climate change and facilitate
the identi?cation of priority decision areas where the various interventions can
be implemented.

Step 1. involves the gathering of climate change information and characterizing

hazards that may affect the locality.

Step 2. identifying key areas or sectors that may be affected by climate change and
natural hazards and determining likely impacts (direct and indirect);

3. gathering baseline map and attribute data on exposure, vulnerability/ sensitivity and
adaptive capacity as basis for the Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment (CCVA)
and Disaster Risk Assessment (DRA).

4. identification of vulnerable areas and sectors by analysing exposure, sensitivity and

adaptive capacity to the various climate stimuli.

5. identification of risk areas by analyzing hazard, exposure and vulnerability.

6. identification of priority decision areas/sectors based on the combined level of risks

and vulnerabilities, identification of risk management options, climate change
adaptation and mitigation options.