Title Managing Disaster Risk in Emerging Economies

Published Washington, D.C. : World Bank, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 193 pages) : illustrations Series Disaster risk management series ; no. 2 Disaster risk management series ; no. 2. World Bank e-Library. Contents Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I RISK IDENTIFICATION -- Developing Countries and the Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters -- Economic Aspects of Floods: The Case of Argentina -- Floods in Buenos Aires: Learning from the Past -- Climate, Change, and Disasters -- PART II RISK REDUCTION -- Infrastructure, Natural Disasters, and Poverty -- Flooding Issues: The Case of the United States -- Cultural Heritage and Natural Disasters: Incentives for Risk Management and Mitigation Single- Family Housing: The Window of Opportunity for Mitigation Following Natural Disaster -- Women and Children Facing Disaster -- Climate Change from a Development Perspective -- PART III RISK TRANSFER AND FINANCE -- Risk and Insurance by the Poor in Developing Nations -- Financing Disaster Mitigation for the Poor -- Moral Dimensions of Risk Transfer and Reduction Strategies -- Risk Transfer and Finance Experience in the Caribbean -- Incentives for Mitigation Investment and More Effective Risk Management: The Need for Public- Private Partnerships Summary 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 prevention and mitigation measures in all Bank activities. Part I of this book on risk identification contains chapters on the economic impacts on natural disasters in developing countries, including flooding, with the example of Buenos Aires; and time scales of climate and disaster. Part II explores aspects of reducing disaster risk, such as the relationship of infrastructure, natural disasters, and poverty; flooding issues in the United States, incentives for risk management and mitigation concerning cultural heritage; issues related to single-family housing, women, and children; and climate change from a development perspective. Part III looks at strategies for developing countries to more effectively share and transfer disaster risk from the angles of risk and insurance by the poor in developing countries; financing disaster mitigation for the poor; moral dimensions of risk transfer and reduction strategies; incentives for mitigation investment and risk management to encourage public-private partnerships; and linking catastrophe insurance and mitigating disaster losses Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes English Print version record Subject Emergency management -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries Emergency management -- Developing countries -- Planning Disaster relief -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries Emergency management -- Developing countries NATURE -- Natural Disasters. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disasters & Disaster Relief. Disaster relief -- Economic aspects Emergency management Aufsatzsammlung Katastrophenmanagement Management Notfall Risk management. Rampen. Hulpverlening. Developing countries Entwicklungsländer Form Electronic book Author Kreimer, Alcira. Arnold, Margaret, 1965- ISBN 9780821347263 0821347268 0585345937 9780585345932 9786610015276 6610015279 1280015276 9781280015274

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