This is a working draft for the workshop on Integration of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in to Biodiversity/ Ecosystem management. Chapter 1 describes South Asia and the impacts of climate change on natural disasters, biodiversity, protected areas and coastal ecosystems, wave climates, fisheries and aquaculture, coastal zone management and human well being. Chapter 2 describes the marine and coastal protected areas in the five countries of South Asia. Chapter 3 gives the socio-economic and demographic profile, Chapter 4 provides the institutional review, Chapter 5 gives the current status of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in the focus countries while Chapter 6 discusses various issues pertaining to climate change, disaster risk reduction and ecosystem management. The countries covered are Bangladesh, India. Sri Lanka, Pakistan and the Maldives.