Performing Arts for Disaster Risk Reduction Including Climate Change Adaptation

Much disaster risk reduction (DRR), including climate change adaptation (CCA), policy and practice is developed and progressed through linear depictions involving words. Examples are scientific papers, legislation, policy briefs, green papers, and white papers. Yet we know that non-linearities exist in expressing these topics and that all forms of communication, including diverse oral and written forms, have advantages and limitations. Notwithstanding its own limitations, artistic expression can seek to arrive at deeper explanation where language alone falls short. Fine art, poetry, sculpture, and creative literature forms, for instance, all reach for more than descriptive logic.