Business case for DRR

Hurricane Andrew revealed inadequate construction practices were utilized in the U.S. state of Florida for decades. In response, Florida adopted a new statewide code – the 2001 Florida Building Code (FBC) which became one of the strictest in the nation

This study analyses the cost of inaction and the benefits of action in Azacualpa, a small village in the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, the capital City of Honduras, where 27 reservoirs were built as a strategy to face drought, which had been affecting up to

This guide provides a detailed overview of the Resilience Dividend Valuation Model (RDVM) to help policymakers and practitioners understand how it can be implemented across a range of contexts.

The RAND Corporation and the Rockefeller Foundation formed

This report describes how the RAND Corporation developed the Resilience Dividend Valuation Model (RDVM), a modelling framework that can be used to estimate the net benefits of a resilience project, and offers a set of case studies to demonstrate how it

This case study describes work commissioned by the Met Office to conduct a Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) forecast, which focused on the impacts related to droughts and landslides in Rwanda. The analysis was done in support of Meteo Rwanda's FONERWA project

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is conducting a comprehensive study across regions to assess the benefit from applying DRR good practices in agriculture. The study identify practices that help to reduce the vulnerability

This report presents the concept of the resilience dividend as a useful metric for community resilience planning. The report suggests defining the resilience dividend as the net co-benefit (or co-cost) of investing in enhanced resilience, in the absence

This paper reports on original research undertaken by the World Animal Protection (WSPA) to analyse costs and benefits of livestock protection in disaster risk management (DRM). The research provides a solution-based example of how disaster risk reduction

The objective of this paper, commissioned by Aktion Deutschland Hilft e.V., is the development of a structured synthesis of available case studies to create generalised statements about the economic efficiency of disaster risk reduction (DRR). Furthermore