Investing in resilience : ensuring a disaster-resistant future.

Investing in resilience : ensuring a disaster-resistant future.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Asian Development Bank
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Mandaluyong, Philippines : Asian Development Bank, 2013.
Subjects:
Emergency management > Finance.
Natural disasters.
natural disasters.
NATURE > Natural Disasters.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disasters & Disaster Relief.
Emergency management > Finance
Natural disasters
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Executive Summary; Part I: Disasters and Development: Instruments and Mechanisms for Strengthened Resilience; 1. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back-Development and Disasters; 2. Disaster Losses in Asia and the Pacific; 3. A Potential Future: Rising Losses and Continued Development Setbacks; 4. Gaps and Obstacles to a Resilient Future; 5. Stimulating, Securing, and Sustaining Investment in a More Resilient Future; 5.1 Stimulating Investment: Policy Change and Innovation.
  • 5.2 Securing Investment: Implementing Resilience5.3 Sustaining Investment in Resilience: Strengthening Capacity and Capabilities; Part II: Visions of the Future: Overcoming Gaps and Obstacles; 6. Introduction: The Backcasting Approach; 7. Journeys to Resilience: The X Stories; 7.1 A Country's Journey to Resilience: A National Disaster Management Office Director's Experience; 7.2 A City's Journey to Resilience: A Story from a Long-Term City Resident; 7.3 Pursuing a Path to Resilient Livelihoods: A Family's Story; 8. Thematic and Sectoral Opportunities for Investing in Resilience.
  • 8.1 Strengthened Livelihood Resilience to Disasters8.2 Risk-Sensitive Land Use Planning; 8.3 Safe Road Transport; 8.4 Safe Schools; 8.5 Safe Housing; Part III: Financing Residual Risk; 9. The Role of Disaster Risk Financing in Building Resilience; 10. Commercial Market Perceptions of Disaster Risk Financing in Asia; 11. The Path Forward for Disaster Risk Financing in Asia and the Pacific; 12. Policy-Based Investment Opportunities to Support Disaster Risk Financing Capacity Development; Part IV: Achieving Resilience; 13. Conclusion; References and Glossary; References; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E.
  • FH; I; L; M; P; R; S; T; V; Tables; 1 Definitions of Resilience; 2 Average Annual and Probable Maximum Tropical Cyclone, Earthquake, and Tsunami Losses in the Pacific; 3 Average Annual and Probable Maximum Losses for Natural Hazards in Association of Southeast Asian Nations Member States; 4 Benefit-to-Cost Analysis of Investments in Resilience in Asia and the Pacific; 5 Policy, Capacity, and Investment Actions for Risk-Sensitive Livelihood Development; 6 Processes and Tools for Risk-Sensitive Land Use Management; 7 Policy, Capacity, and Investment Actions for Risk-Sensitive Land Use Planning.
  • 8 Policy, Capacity, and Investment Actions for a Resilient Road Transport Sector9 Policy, Capacity, and Investment Actions for Resilient Schools; 10 Policy, Capacity, and Investment Actions for Resilient Housing; Figures; 1 Loss of Life as a Consequence of Natural Hazards, 1971-2010; 2 Direct Physical Losses as a Consequence of Natural Hazards in Asia and the Pacific, 1970-2011; 3 Direct Physical Losses as a Consequence of Natural Hazards in Developing Countries in Asia and the Pacific, 1970-2011; 4 Direct Physical Losses as a Consequence of Natural Hazards, 1971-2010.

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