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InternationalSociological Association's World Congress of Sociology Toronto, Canada,15-21 July 2018 Call forabstract submissions, deadline 30 September 2017 Climate Change's Role in Disasters andDisaster Risk Reduction https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/Session8566.html In severalrecent pieces, we describe the separation of climate change fromwider topics and how to better integrate climate change into disaster research anddisaster risk reduction: 1.https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Disaster-Risk-Reduction-Including-Climate-Change/Kelman-Mercer-Gaillard/p/book/9781138924567 2. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108/DPM-02-2017-0043 3.http://www.21stcentury.co.uk/science/climate-change-vulnerability 4.https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13753-015-0038-5 5.https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11069-016-2294-0 6. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13753-015-0046-5 This work shows in principle how and why disaster riskreduction encompasses climate change adaptation and how climate change affects somehazards, but does not necessarily influence vulnerability. That is, climatechange offers little new from previous disaster-related work (with a fewexceptions). Consequently, opportunities exist to join forces and actions inorder to tackle many on-the-ground challenges simultaneously, within widerdevelopment and sustainability contexts. With the notion of 'disaster riskreduction including climate change adaptation' now fully established and published,the question remains regarding its robustness and implementation in practice. This sessionsolicits case studies demonstrating how much could be gained by placing climatechange adaptation within disaster risk reduction and ensuring that climatechange's influences on hazards do not subsume the importance of vulnerabilitycausing disasters. Examples of abstracts might be: 1. Counterarguments to or flaws in the publishedpieces listed above. 2. The exceptions hinted at. 3. Flood or landslide risk and vulnerability reductionmeasures factoring in future climate change projections on hazards. 4. A hazard analysis which includes climate change asone weather driver amongst many, indicating how to use the analysis to reducevulnerability. 5. Shoreline management or management of marineprotected areas which addresses multiple hazards (including tsunamis, stormsurges, and sea-level rise) and multiple vulnerabilities. 6. Gender-responsive and gender-based approaches for linking topics.7. Ecosystem-based adaptation as part ofecosystem-based disaster risk reduction. 8. Community-based disaster risk reduction projectswhich incorporate dealing with climate change. 9. How climate change influences vulnerabilityindependently of other factors. 10. The role of migration, as a negative consequenceand as an opportunity, within these discussions. 11. Reasons why climate change has separated itself inorder to overcome the barriers. Overall, whatempirical evidence exists to affirm or refute notions of (i) disaster riskreduction including climate change adaptation and (ii) climate changeinfluencing hazards, but people's actions remaining responsible for disasters? We will produce a special issue of 'Disaster Prevention and Management'http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journal/dpm from this session's papers. Please feel freeto contact me with any questions and looking forward to your abstractsubmissions. Ilan http://www.ilankelman.org Twitter @IlanKelman