Why aren’t we investing more in disaster resilience, despite the rising costs of disaster events? This book argues that … disasters, and perceive the return on investment as uncertain - only realised if a somewhat unlikely disaster event actually … beyond only avoided losses (the first dividend) to the wider benefits gained independently of whether or not the disaster …

In this paper, we introduce a new applicable tool to evaluate any post-natural disaster and its impact on people losses … and damage, the new applicable tool is entitled “the post-natural disaster people losses and damage simulator (Ḧ …-Simulator).” Subsequently, the Ḧ-Simulator works under the application of five indicators such as (i) the post-natural disaster people losses …

Asia and the Pacific? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors - rising population exposure, greater …. In a regression analysis within a model of disaster risk determination, the most significant association is between the …