Despite escalating disaster losses and predicted increases in weather-related catastrophes, takeup of protective …

communities have been responding to and managing disaster risk for centuries. Before the creation of Japan's formal state system … in the disaster response and saved countless human lives. Recognizing the role of communities and providing them with …, local communities carried out disaster-related activities as volunteers; community-based organizations (CBOs) have existed …

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 …

); and co-benefits of resilience measures beyond just disaster risk (the third dividend), such as flood embankments in …Chapter 1. The triple dividend of resilience - a new narrative for disaster risk management and development -- Chapter … 2. Unlocking economic potential: the ‘development dividend’ of resilience -- Chapter 3. Co-benefits of 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 …