Localizing Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in Planners’ and Decision Makers’ Agenda: Technical Comprehensive Model, Quezon City, Philippines.

Super Typhoon Haiyan devastated portions of Southeast Asia, particularly the Philippines on November 8, 2013. It caused unprecedented destruction but it also brought about new awareness for urgent and immediate action, not only on integrating Disaster Risk Management in our daily functions but also on addressing Climate Change variation impacts. In response, various stakeholders have made numerous efforts in reducing the country’s risk through crafting laws, statutes and government issuances. However, adaptive and coping capacities of Local Government Units remain very weak, and information on how to assess expected risk and incorporate it in developing local risk sensitive physical and development plans are still not part of the planners’ and decision makers’ agenda. The main objective of this study is to develop a technical Risk Sensitive Comprehensive Land Use and Development Planning Model to mainstream scientific-based risk assessment into the Quezon City Government (the pilot urban area) planners’ and decision makers’ agenda. The Model also comes with a toolkit with eight (8) Guideposts in operationalizing the Model. It is an effective tool and is a foundation to support in achieving imminent 2020 targets of the Sendai Framework, Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals up to 2030. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]