Economics of DRR

This report summarizes a scoping study assessing: (i) the impacts and economic costs of climate change in Tanzania; (ii) the costs and benefits of adaptation; and (iii) the potential for low carbon growth. It presents the key messages from the study and

The study by Danilo C. Israel, of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies, found the huge economic loss, from 1990 to 2009, came from direct damage to property, livelihoods and crops due to climate-related natural hazards. Israel recommends improved weather forecasting and information dissemination to curb the negative impacts of weather and climate-related disasters, reports the Inquirer...

The funding has been allocated for the implementation of a Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction project that will involve watershed and coastal rehabilitation as well as climate change awareness...

Attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Mexico City's head of government, Marcelo Ebrard suggested yesterday that the 10 billion dollars approved by the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) should be used to establish a Global Disaster Fund to support climate change mitigation and adaptation...

Theodore Panayotou looks at how the tourist industry can adapt to climate change, proposing a shift from mass tourism towards more alternative forms with a lower environmental impact and suggests the adoption of measures such as effective building codes, monitoring, early warning, seawalls and protective coastal vegetation, among others...

A memorandum of agreement between the DILG and the provincial government of Nueva Ecija on the implementation of a P204.197 million disaster risk reduction project was signed on December 22, 2010 at DILG...

Taiwan signed up with Care France today donating 105,882 euros (US$145,044) to help finance a 15-month project in Nicaragua to help reduce the impact of natural hazards and to carry out risk assessments, according to The Central News Agency...

Working paper # 2011-01:

This paper examines the benefits and costs of improving or retrofitting residential structures in highly exposed low- and middle-income developing countries such that they are less vulnerable to hazards during their lifetime. It