Abstract Climate-related disasters in coastal urban areas are intensifying with significant impacts on populaces, environments, and ecosystems. Hence, climate-related disaster preparedness is now acknowledged by climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction experts. However, there is limited knowledge of communities and policy-makers on the integration of climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR). This paper through the lens of resilience theory presents goals towards linking coastal climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction from the case study of East London, coastal city in South Africa. This study gathered data through a semi-structured survey, aimed at defining salient public issues to improve CCA and DRR policies, public participation inclusion, and programmes. This study shows that the knowledge of CCA and DRR is relatively low in the study area, also the provision of disaster information by the local authority is quite low. Conversely, most of the respondents affirm that available disaster information is always in locally understood languages, this is important in understanding disaster early warning by local dwellers. Accordingly, in disaster information dissemination, the government should be proactive and responsive in spreading information that covers every people. Further work that respects the importance of indigenous knowledge for CCA and DRR integration is needed i.e. local participation in the framework of development endeavours, through the inclusion of indigenous people in policymaking at the sub-national, national and international levels, this would help them to participate in administrative processes that affect them; providing a resilient community, improved adaptive capacity and sustainable living. Effective flexibility, adaptability, interoperability among stakeholders at various levels are key ingredients to reaching these goals.

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将城市沿海地区的气候变化适应与减少灾害风险联系起来的建议：来自南非东伦敦的经验教训

摘要 沿海城市地区气候相关灾害正在加剧，对人口、环境和生态系统产生重大影响。因此，与气候相关的备灾现在得到气候变化适应和减少灾害风险专家的认可。然而，社区和政策制定者对气候变化适应 (CCA) 和减少灾害风险 (DRR) 的整合了解有限。本文通过复原力理论的视角，从南非沿海城市东伦敦的案例研究中提出了将沿海气候变化适应与减少灾害风险联系起来的目标。本研究通过半结构化调查收集数据，旨在定义突出的公共问题，以改进 CCA 和 DRR 政策、公众参与包容性和计划。本研究表明，研究区对 CCA 和 DRR 的了解程度较低，地方当局提供的灾害信息也相当少。相反，大多数受访者确认可用的灾害信息总是以当地能理解的语言，这对于当地居民了解灾害预警很重要。因此，在灾害信息传播中，政府应积极主动地传播覆盖每个人的信息。需要进一步开展工作，尊重土著知识对 CCA 和 DRR 整合的重要性，即当地参与发展努力的框架，通过将土著人民纳入国家以下各级、国家和国际层面的决策，这将有助于他们参与影响他们的行政程序；提供有弹性的社区，提高适应能力和可持续的生活。各级利益相关者之间的有效灵活性、适应性和互操作性是实现这些目标的关键因素。