This handbook is an excellent starting point as it provides a straightforward, step-by-step guide to understanding changing disaster risk and how to translate this into a set of possible actions. The handbook is greatly enriched by the experiences of Practical Action Nepal in leading projects that have truly become beacons for a climate-smart disaster risk management approach. Their approach and the one detailed here underscores the importance of accessing and triangulating all available information about disaster trends, making efforts to draw on both scientific and local knowledge wherever it exists. For an organisation like Practical Action, widely respected for its culturally appropriate and robust solutions, following the steps laid out in this handbook will lead to high confidence that investments genuinely reduce disaster risk over time.
