Economics of DRR

The Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) in Brazil is to put US$ 6.7 billion into the construction of slope containment and floodwater drainage projects, the Minister of Planning, Budget and Management, Miriam Belchior, announced yesterday...

Australia needs a fund to prepare for two disasters coming its way - climate change and biodiversity loss - writes Paul Sinclair Australian Conservation Foundation's healthy ecosystems programme manager, in a report for the Sydney Morning Herald...

During a recent meeting with Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff, the World Bank Director for Brazil, Makhtar Diop, announced that a US$485 million no-counterparty loan is in the final stages of approval for housing and disaster prevention in Rio de Janeiro State – in order to support the Morar Seguro (Safe Residence) programme...

Kenya can best mitigate the devastating effects of recurrent drought by strengthening the livestock sector so that it becomes a viable money-based economy, and improving pastoral food and water security, say aid officials...

This concept note presents the value of property catastrophe insurance programs in covering private and public assets and promoting ex-ante financial risk management of 'natural' disasters, together with the related public and private financing

Open file report 2010-1312:

This report presents a winter storm scenario called ARkStorm (for Atmospheric River 1,000), the next major public project for the Multi Hazards Demonstration Project (MHDP), which uses hazards science to improve resiliency of

This report summarises GFDRR’s areas of major impacts and use of resources from its inception until fiscal year (FY) 2010, and indicates that coming years will be more promising. It aims not only to serve as the comprehensive overview of the impact of

'What should be done to better prepare the country for large-scale events?' asks Erwann Michel-Kerjan, managing director of the US Wharton Business School's Risk Centre and chairman of the OECD High-Level Advisory Board on the financial management of catastrophes, in a report for the Australian....