RT null T1 Disaster Risk Management for Coastal Tourism Destinations Responding to Climate Change: A Practical Guide for Decision Makers A1 United Nations Environment Programme, A1 Caribbean Alliance for Sustainable Tourism, A2 Shurland, Deirdre A2 de Jong, Pieter PB United Nations Environment Programme SN 978 92 907 2922 2 YR 2009 FD 2009 LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7806 UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7806 NO The sustainability of coastal tourism destinations depends partly on their ability to adapt planning and management practices to the impacts of climate change and also to increase their ability to effectively manage natural disasters. Climate change will exacerbate weather-related disasters that will be not only more frequent but also more powerful and consequently will put coastal tourism destinations in an almost constant state of alert. Experience has shown, time and again, that it is local people who are best placed to save lives and to coordinate the return to normality. It is the degree to which people are prepared for disasters that determines how vulnerable or resilient their community will be. The handbook provides disaster managers, local and municipal and community planners, as well as other stakeholders in the tourism sector with a practical guidance on how to better prepare for disasters in coastal destinations. NO https://www.unep.org/resources/report/disaster-risk-management-coastal-tourism-destinations-responding-climate-change DS UN Environment Document Repository RD Sep 21, 2026