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 …

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 …

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 …

for appraising sovereign disaster risk financing and insurance instruments and strategy, and puts forward a model and a … process for improving decision making on the linked disaster risk management strategy and sovereign disaster risk financing … disaster risk financing decision making and describes the ex ante and ex post financing instruments available for responding to …

implement disaster relief financing and insurance programs. This paper discusses four aspects of the microeconomics of disaster … game setups to analyze the private willingness-to-pay for disaster protection through risk transfer or risk retention … instruments; (2) use of ex post analysis of existing disaster relief financing and insurance schemes (such as Mexico?s programs …