On Mitigating Rapid Onset Natural Disasters
Author : R. R. Behn
Publisher :
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 13,30 MB
Release : 1988
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Author : R. R. Behn
Publisher :
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 13,30 MB
Release : 1988
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Author : Eugene Gurenko
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 14,28 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Natural disasters
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Gurenko and Lester provide a conceptual framework for designing a comprehensive risk management strategy for rapid onset natural disasters at the country level, with a particular emphasis on the role of catastrophe loss funding. The authors discuss the key policy and technical issues involved in building financially sustainable catastrophe risk transfer and funding programs in disaster prone countries and their links to risk mitigation. They also deal with the cognitive and political economy issues that are likely to arise and ways to accommodate them. This paper--a product of the Financial Sector Operations and Policy Department--is part of a larger effort in the department to develop modern risk management approaches at the country level.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 23,64 MB
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309045460
Initial priorities for U.S. participation in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, declared by the United Nations, are contained in this volume. It focuses on seven issues: hazard and risk assessment; awareness and education; mitigation; preparedness for emergency response; recovery and reconstruction; prediction and warning; learning from disasters; and U.S. participation internationally. The committee presents its philosophy of calls for broad public and private participation to reduce the toll of disasters.
Author : Eugene Gurenko
Publisher :
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 47,75 MB
Release : 2016
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ISBN :
Gurenko and Lester provide a conceptual framework for designing a comprehensive risk management strategy for rapid onset natural disasters at the country level, with a particular emphasis on the role of catastrophe loss funding. The authors discuss the key policy and technical issues involved in building financially sustainable catastrophe risk transfer and funding programs in disaster prone countries and their links to risk mitigation. They also deal with the cognitive and political economy issues that are likely to arise and ways to accommodate them.This paper - a product of the Financial Sector Operations and Policy Department - is part of a larger effort in the department to develop modern risk management approaches at the country level.
Author : Dean T. Jamison
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 1449 pages
File Size : 25,66 MB
Release : 2006-04-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0821361805
Based on careful analysis of burden of disease and the costs ofinterventions, this second edition of 'Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd edition' highlights achievable priorities; measures progresstoward providing efficient, equitable care; promotes cost-effectiveinterventions to targeted populations; and encourages integrated effortsto optimize health. Nearly 500 experts - scientists, epidemiologists, health economists,academicians, and public health practitioners - from around the worldcontributed to the data sources and methodologies, and identifiedchallenges and priorities, resulting in this integrated, comprehensivereference volume on the state of health in developing countries.
Author : Piers Blaikie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 42,51 MB
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 1134528612
The term 'natural disaster' is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes, hurricanes or floods. However, the phrase 'natural disaster' suggests an uncritical acceptance of a deeply engrained ideological and cultural myth. At Risk questions this myth and argues that extreme natural events are not disasters until a vulnerable group of people is exposed. The updated new edition confronts a further ten years of ever more expensive and deadly disasters and discusses disaster not as an aberration, but as a signal failure of mainstream 'development'. Two analytical models are provided as tools for understanding vulnerability. One links remote and distant 'root causes' to 'unsafe conditions' in a 'progression of vulnerability'. The other uses the concepts of 'access' and 'livelihood' to understand why some households are more vulnerable than others. Examining key natural events and incorporating strategies to create a safer world, this revised edition is an important resource for those involved in the fields of environment and development studies.
Author : Pan American Health Organization
Publisher : Pan American Health Org
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 34,24 MB
Release : 2000
Category : America
ISBN : 9275115753
Includes statistics.
Author : Keith Smith
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 43,21 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780415224642
Topics include : risk assessment, disaster management, adjustment to the hazard (accepting, sharing, reducing loss), earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, snow avalances, storms, biophysical hazards (extreme temperatures, epidemics, frost, wildlifires), floods, droughts, technological hazards (i.e. Bhopal and Chernobyl), etc.
Author : InterAcademy Panel on International Issues
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 25,8 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Natural disasters
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Author : Debarati Guha-Sapir
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 20,35 MB
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199841934
This work combines research and empirical evidence on the economic costs of disasters with theoretical approaches. It provides new insights on how to assess and manage the costs and impacts of disaster prevention, mitigation, recovery and adaption, and much more.