it is suggested that these initiatives should have dynamic allocation criteria and flexible components to deal with the new risks arising from the disasters the adaptive social protection proposal combines preexisting protection tools and climate change adaptation approaches in addition to generating strategies for reducing disaster risk associated with environmental changes common objectives are thus synthesized such as reducing disaster vulnerability promoting the incorporation of a longterm vision in government definitions of social and disaster protection and formulating differentiated policy recommendations to prepare settlements for potential catastrophes and avoid situations of further harm world bank