We provide the planner's solution to a model where households learn from exogenous natural disaster arrivals about … since disaster leads to pessimistic arrival-rate beliefs and taxes or mandates to fund mitigation, which reduce consumption …

Chapter 1 Financial Impact of Mega Disasters – Introduction -- Chapter 2 Japan’s Disaster Risk Financing – Framework … 4 Law and Policy Responses to Disaster-induced Financial Distress – The Tsunami Victims of 3/11 -- Chapter 5 How the … implications of mega-disaster risks as well as in seeking possible solutions with regard to governance, the allocation of financial …

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 …

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 …

One of the objectives of a GFDRR funded project in Armenia (Institutional Arrangements on Disaster Risk Management and …

established a cabinet-level Minister responsible for disaster response. Government may wish to build on these achievements. The … report is also based on a study carried out in Armenia under the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR …) project, which analyzed disaster risks, assessed existing systems, mechanisms, and institutional capacities, and made …

This report seeks to further the body of disaster risk management (DRM) knowledge in Santa Catarina by identifying …