**5. Recommendations and policy options**

Reducing vulnerability and increasing resilience to climate and environmental risks requires developing appropriate adaptation and disaster risk management strategies. Achieving this however depends on proper understanding of the dimensions of exposure and vulnerability and adequate valuation of changes in those dimensions [13]. In addition, building resilience requires identifying possible hazards and understanding the vulnerabilities that may affect recovery from such hazards. Risk information is central to good risk management as it provides the necessary details about what, when and where disasters might occur, how severe it could be and who might be affected. Having an appropriate understanding of the situation provides the opportunity for proper adjustment. Improving adaptation and building

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resilience require appropriate actions from all actors including communities, governments, NGOs and businesses. Therefore, a number of recommendations on strategies to improve adaption and resilience to climate and environmental risks are provided to guide action at local, national and transnational levels.
