This book presents papers on several events organized by the World Bank's Disaster Management Fund (DMF). The DMF …'s objectives are to help the Bank provide a more strategic and rapid response to disaster emergencies and to integrate disaster … scales of climate and disaster. Part II explores aspects of reducing disaster risk, such as the relationship of …

National governments are supposed to play a pivotal role in disaster risk management (DRM). This paper reviews trends … recommendations on how to establish disaster risk governance for developing countries, including mainstreaming DRM into development …

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 …

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 …

The United Nations Sendai (2015) framework aims to reduce disaster risk. We offer a careful definition and computation …

Burkina Faso is one of the priority countries of the World Bank's Disaster Risk Management (DRM) team for 2009 to 2011 …. this country note on Disaster Risk Management and Adaptation to Climate Change (DRM/ACC) is a baseline document for … under the "Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery" (GFDRR). Based on analysis of the impact of climate …

disaster risk management in the Philippines. The objectives of the first study were to: document the impacts of natural … disaster risk; and identify options for more effective management of that risk. This follow-on study is intended to support the … disaster management in the Philippines; study on floods, sediment and typhoon disaster; study on earthquake disaster; study on …

, volcanic eruptions, tropical cyclones and floods, making it one of the most disaster prone countries in the world. This report … country's current capacity to reduce and manage disaster risk; and identify options for more effective management of that risk …. The Philippine institutional arrangements and disaster management systems tend to rely on a response, or reactive approach …

analysis of the costs and benefits of selected disaster risk management (DRM) investments', with the aim to showcase the … benefits of investing in the prevention of disaster risks. The objective of this report is to provide EU Member States …/Participating States (MS/PS) and UCPM members with consolidated analysis and information on the economic value of investing in disaster and …