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These resources explore the economic, social and environmental dividends of investing in disaster risk reduction. Read more about the business case for DRR.
 

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ODI: Can reducing disaster risk create a 'triple dividend'?

The report 'Unlocking the triple dividend of resilience' launched today by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) at Sendai in partnership with the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) spells out how investments can yield a triple dividend...
Thomson Reuters Foundation, trust.org
Documents and publications
2015

The business case for disaster risk reduction: Final report

This document reports on the Private sector forum: Making the business case for disaster risk reduction (DRR), held on 13-14 January 2015 in Suva, Fiji. It identifies the following main outcomes:

  • (i) Fijian business shared several good practices in
Incheon Metropolitan City United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Office in Incheon for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction
Documents and publications
2014

Does mitigation save? Reviewing cost-benefit analyses of disaster risk reduction

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, volume 10, part A, December 2014, pp. 213–235, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2014.08.004:

The benefit-cost-ratio (BCR), used in cost-benefit analysis (CBA), is an indicator that attempts to summarize the overall

Elsevier
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Adapting to sea level rise could save trillions by 2100

Floods already pose major problems for coastal communities each year. Those issues are only likely to grow as oceans continue to rise, due in part to climate change, threatening millions of people and trillions of dollars in infrastructure. But new research suggests that building levees could stave off huge losses at a minimal cost...
Climate Central
Documents and publications
2013

Cost benefit studies on disaster risk reduction in developing countries

EAP DRM knowledge notes, working paper series no 27:

This note briefly surveys existing evidence in developing countries with regard to the benefits and costs of various disaster risk reduction interventions so as to provide some general lessons for

World Bank, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the
Documents and publications
2010

Investing in communities: The benefits and costs of building resilience for food security in Malawi

This publication reports on a community-based cost benefit analysis of a disaster risk reduction (DRR) and food security programme in a Malawian agricultural community. The aim of this study is to assess programme activities for their cost-effectiveness

Tearfund
Documents and publications
2010

Cost benefit study of disaster risk mitigation measures in three islands in the Maldives

This report reviews the current Safer Islands Programme (SIP) concept established in the Maldives following the tsunami and its contribution to Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), and puts a figure on the costs and benefits of climate change adaptation and DRR

United Nations Development Programme - Maldives
Documents and publications
2005

Natural disaster and disaster risk reduction measures: A desk review of costs and benefits

This draft report has been prepared by Environmental Resources Management on behalf of the Department for International Development. The objective of the report is to present a high-level, desk-based assessment of the economic costs of disasters, and of

Department for International Development United Kingdom - government Environmental Resources Management Environmental Resources Management