the end of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR, March 14 - 18, 2015). We review and discuss …In March 2015, a new international blueprint for disaster risk reduction (DRR) has been adopted in Sendai, Japan, at …

This study provides new empirical evidence on the effect of improving the conditions in disaster risk management (DRM …) governance in terms of human losses resulting from disaster events. To measure governance in disaster risk management, we use the … Index of Governance and Public Policy in Disaster Risk Management (IGOPP), developed by the Inter-American Development Bank …

disaster risk resilience (DRR). This paper tries to emphasise the importance of DRR in dealing with natural catastrophesby … sectors.Despite the suite of reforms that have been initiated in shifting towards resilient infrastructure and disaster funds …

impact. We combine a new dataset on disaster risk management governance for 26 countries from the Latin America and Caribbean … disaster risk management (DRM) governance processes, we exploit the fact that changes in DRM regulatory frameworks affect a … country's capacity for disaster risk identification and reduction to provide instrumental variable estimates of their impact …