Extreme events such as disasters often act as proximate drivers of windows of opportunity . Climate disasters in a specific location become significant windows for new debate, policymaking and financing . Extreme events also can facilitate change at locations distant from the most impacted site when remote actors gain perspective on their own risks . Factors that facilitate extreme events driving proactive as opposed to reactive responses include access to relevant risk and vulnerability data, pre-existing experience with similar events, and appropriate governance . Page and Dilling  find that worldview or ideology plays a central role in sense- making and in shaping what organisational decision makers 'see' in terms of acceptable actions in response to an extreme event.
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