Investing in Resilience : Ensuring a Disaster-Resistant Future

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- Part I: Disasters and Development: Instruments and Mechanisms for Strengthened Resilience -- 1. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back-Development and Disasters -- 2. Disaster Losses in Asia and the Pacific -- 3. A Potential Future: Rising Losses and Continued Development Setbacks -- 4. Gaps and Obstacles to a Resilient Future -- 5. Stimulating, Securing, and Sustaining Investment in a More Resilient Future -- 5.1 Stimulating Investment: Policy Change and Innovation -- 5.2 Securing Investment: Implementing Resilience -- 5.3 Sustaining Investment in Resilience: Strengthening Capacity and Capabilities -- Part II: Visions of the Future: Overcoming Gaps and Obstacles -- 6. Introduction: The Backcasting Approach -- 7. Journeys to Resilience: The X Stories -- 7.1 A Country's Journey to Resilience: A National Disaster Management Office Director's Experience -- 7.2 A City's Journey to Resilience: A Story from a Long-Term City Resident -- 7.3 Pursuing a Path to Resilient Livelihoods: A Family's Story -- 8. Thematic and Sectoral Opportunities for Investing in Resilience -- 8.1 Strengthened Livelihood Resilience to Disasters -- 8.2 Risk-Sensitive Land Use Planning -- 8.3 Safe Road Transport -- 8.4 Safe Schools -- 8.5 Safe Housing -- Part III: Financing Residual Risk -- 9. The Role of Disaster Risk Financing in Building Resilience -- 10. Commercial Market Perceptions of Disaster Risk Financing in Asia -- 11. The Path Forward for Disaster Risk Financing in Asia and the Pacific -- 12. Policy-Based Investment Opportunities to Support Disaster Risk Financing Capacity Development -- Part IV: Achieving Resilience -- 13. Conclusion -- References and Glossary -- References -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- H -- I -- L -- M -- P -- R.