Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier untersucht das System der Katastrophenversicherung in Spanien untersucht und mit dem Schweizer System der kantonalen Gebäudeversicherung verglichen.

This paper studies whether private adaptation to flood risk is economically efficient. We estimate the return to elevating houses, one of the most significant private defensive investments against flooding, using two decades of microdata on the universe of houses and flood damages in high-risk...

The global objective of this study is to assess the actions and initiatives in the field of civil protection in the Caribbean, in order to promote, enhance and reinforce regional cooperation between European Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs), Outermost Regions (ORs) and the countries...

This paper enriches existing valuation literature in a number of ways by presenting context-specific estimates of immaterial damage. First, it offers an estimation of value of statistical life (VOSL) in the context of a natural hazard (flooding). Next, as one of the contributions, alongside with...

Hazards have no respect for the political boundaries of countries so it is essential for disaster risk management (DRM) to be developed with a strong regional perspective. This paper describes a wide range of regional initiatives in Asia and the Pacific that rely on innovative solutions being...

This issues paper aims to help ADB DMC governments integrate Disaster Risk Management into their national developmental strategies and examine how emerging economies of Asia can cooperate to improve their disaster risk management practices, in view of increasing risks of compound disasters,...

Offensichtliche Defizite bei der Bewältigung der Corona-Pandemie legen nahe, das Management solcher Ausnahmesituationen grundlegend zu verbessern. Aus einer systemtheoretischen Sicht rückt dazu eine Organisationsform in den Fo-kus, die sich vor allem auf Personen stützt. Solche Formen der...