Creating Resilient Futures

1 Introduction: Can the Sendai Framework, The Paris Agreement, and Agenda 2030 provide a path towards resilience?.- Section 1 Best practice approaches.- 2 Why making connections through resilience indicators matters?.- 3 Coherence, alignment and integration: Understanding the legal relationship between sustainable development, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction.- 4 Bridging gaps: connecting climate change risk assessments with disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation agendas.- Section 2 Irish case studies.- 5 Enhancing Integration of Disaster Risk and Climate Change Adaptation into Irish Emergency Planning.- 6 Supporting national climate change action in Ireland through local governance networks.- 7 Mainstreaming climate change adaptation into planning and development: A case study example from Northern Ireland.- Section 3 International case studies.- 8 Sustainability, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation: Building from the bottom up - ASouth African perspective from the small-scale fisheries sector.- 9 Adapting to climate change through disaster risk reduction in the Caribbean: lessons from the Global South in tackling the Sustainable Development Goals.- 10 Towards a resilient riverine community: A Case Study in Sadong Jaya, Sarawak, Malaysia.- 11 Reimagining our menu for sustainable development.

Stephen Flood has over 12 years' experience in climate change, environmental policy and social science research. His research interests include climate information platforms, serious games, climate adaptation implementation, resilience and systems thinking, coastal management, vulnerability assessment and hazard management. He has worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Climate Change Research Institute at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, as an Environmental Social Science Researcher at Landcare Research also in Wellington (2016 to 2018) and as a Senior Postdoctoral Scientist at the SFI Ireland Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine Research and Innovation (MaREI), at University College Cork. He is currently based at the Irish Climate Analysis and Research Units (ICARUS), Department of Geography, Maynooth University, working on a range of projects focused on various aspects of climate change adaptation and resilience.

Yairen Jerez Columbié is an Assistant Professor in Latin American Studies and Intercultural Communication at Trinity College Dublin, where she investigates cultural exchange, postcolonial ecologies and the sociohistorical and cultural dimensions of environmental challenges. Her work focuses on marginalised knowledge, cultural exchanges, postcolonial socio-ecological systems and ecocritical approaches in Latin America, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World. She has also carried out interdisciplinary work at the SFI Ireland Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine Research and Innovation (MaREI) and lectured at the Department of Spanish Portuguese and Latin American Studies at University College Cork. She is the author of the monograph Essays on Transculturation and Catalan-Cuban Intellectual History (Palgrave Macmillan 2021)
Martin Le Tissier is the lead PI for the Identifying Interactions for SDG Implementation in Ireland (SDGs4IIII) and Achieving Resilience in the Marine and Coastal Environment of Ireland