Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Quiz
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What is adaptation in the context of climate change?

  • The process of climate change identification and analysis
  • The adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or their effects (correct)
  • The process of generating profits from climate-related activities
  • The pursuit of governing power in response to climate change

    • What does 'capacity' refer to in the context of disaster risk reduction?

  • The pursuit of governing power to mitigate disaster effects
  • The adjustment in natural or human systems in response to climatic stimuli
  • A combination of all strengths and resources available within a community, society or organization to reduce risk (correct)
  • The mean and variability changes in climate properties

    • What are Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) primarily focused on?

  • Aims are neither to generate profits nor to seek governing power (correct)
  • Maximizing profits from disaster risk reduction initiatives
  • Identifying natural variability in climate change
  • Gaining governing power to influence climate change policies

    • How is climate change defined?

    <p>A change in climate identified by changes in the mean and/or variability of its properties persisting for an extended period</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does CBDRRM involve?

    <p>Engagement of at-risk communities in the identification, analysis, treatment, monitoring, and evaluation of disaster risk</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is disaster adaptation?

    <p>The adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or their effects</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does 'capacity' refer to in the context of disaster risk reduction?

    <p>The combination of all strengths and resources available within a community, society, or organization that can reduce the level of risk or effects of a disaster</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) primarily focused on?

    <p>Aims that are neither to generate profits nor to seek governing power</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does CBDRRM involve?

    <p>A process of disaster risk reduction and management in which at-risk communities are actively engaged in identification, analysis, treatment, monitoring, and evaluation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How is climate change defined?

    <p>A change in climate that can be identified by changes in the mean and/or variability of its properties and that persists for an extended period typically decades or longer, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity</p> Signup and view all the answers

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