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 …

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

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 …

different characteristics of vulnerability to natural disasters and thus requires an extensive variety of disaster risk …

This paper examines the role of disaster shock in a one-sector, representative agent dynamic stochastic general …, consumption, and country spread to capture the economic effects of output, country risk, and exogenous natural disaster shocks … Belize. Similar findings between empirical and general frameworks show that disaster shocks in Central America and the …