Many ex ante measures taken to reduce disaster risk can deliver co-benefits that are not dependent on disasters … to the main objective of disaster risk management of avoiding disaster losses, but identifying and measuring additional … co-benefits can enhance the attractiveness of disaster risk management investments. Co-benefits are often economic, such …

microeconomic study of the recovery of the private firms in a developing country following a major natural disaster. Disaster … recovery is found to be slower than commonly assumed, with disaster-affected enterprises lagging behind unaffected comparable … firms more than three years after the disaster. Using data from random cash grants provided by the project, the paper shows …

modeling, this paper constructs novel damage indices at the district level for Indonesia, for different disaster events such as … floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and the 2004 Christmas Tsunami. Ex ante, prior to the incidence of a disaster … the subnational governments. Ex post, or after the incidence of a natural disaster, damage indices are useful for quickly …

organizations and on-the-ground presence of foreigners following the 2005 earthquake in Northern Pakistan on local attitudes. They … show that four years after the earthquake, humanitarian assistance by foreigners and foreign organizations has left a …

infrastructure at risk. However, most investment in disaster risk management is made by the public sector, with the private sector … direct benefits of disaster risk management, but also a broader set of co-benefits to themselves and society as a whole … economic stability. Ironically, many of these co-benefits are more tangible and immediate than ordinary disaster risk …

development prospects of affected regions. As such, climate change reinforces the development case for investment in disaster risk … complicates disaster risk management investment decisions, the analysis presented here shows that these considerations are only … for disaster risk management investment decisions. Accounting for climate uncertainty is likely to shift the optimal …

manage disaster risk. Exposure and vulnerability to natural disasters and the effects of climate change are particularly high … disaster risk management framework of the Philippines, taking the lead coordinating role in disaster response activities …. Consequently, social protection programs are on the frontlines of disaster response in the Philippines. This paper focuses …

lives per year, avoid between 460 million and 2.7 billion Euros of disaster asset losses per year, and produce between 3 …

This paper proposes a framework for ex ante evaluation of sovereign disaster risk finance instruments available to … governments for funding disaster losses. The framework can be used by governments to help choose between different financial … disaster losses, taking into account the risk of disasters, economic conditions, and political constraints. The paper discusses …

help resolve these commitment problems. Using a simple model of disaster risk finance is used to identify three distinct …