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Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction : success or warning sign for Paris?

Myšiak, Jaroslav; Surminski, Swenja; Thieken, Annegret; … - 2015

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 …

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Is disaster risk reduction spending driven by the occurrence of natural disasters? : evidence from Peru

Miller, Sebastián; Vela, Mauricio A. - 2014

This paper studies the allocation of total disaster risk reduction public spending among regions in Peru. The main … received by region in order to prevent future natural disasters. Impacts of geological disaster, on the other hand, affect the …

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Quake’n and shake’n…forever! : long-run effects of natural disasters : a case study on the 1970 Ancash earthquake

Caruso, Germán; Miller, Sebastián - 2014

This study estimates the effects of the 1970 Ancash earthquake on human capital accumulation on the affected and subsequent generation, 37 years after the shock, using the Peruvian censuses of 1993 and 2007. The main finding is that males affected by the earthquake in utero completed on average...

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Natural disasters and demand for redistribution : lessons from an earthquake

Gualtieri, Giovanni; Nicolini, Marcella; Sabatini, Fabio; … - 2018

The literature shows that when a society believes that wealth is determined by random "luck" rather than by merit, it demands more redistribution. Adverse shocks, like earthquakes, strengthen the belief that random "bad luck" can frustrate the outcomes achieved with merit. We theoretically...

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Financing India's disaster risk resilience strategy

Ray, Saon; Jain, Samridhi; Thakur, Vasundhara - 2021

disaster risk resilience (DRR). This paper tries to emphasise the importance of DRR in dealing with natural catastrophesby … integrating DRR and climate change adaptation strategies for the purpose of mainstreaming them into centrally sponsored schemes … sectors.Despite the suite of reforms that have been initiated in shifting towards resilient infrastructure and disaster funds …

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