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Displaying 15 of about 67 resultsThis paper presents research from collaboration between the Cyclone Testing Station (CTS) at James Cook University and insurer Suncorp over the last two years. A key outcome of this work has been an insurance premium reduction program by Suncorp known as the 'Cyclone Resilience Benefit'. Background research conducted for the program by the CTS is discus…
The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) has developed a new streamlined business continuity program for small businesses that may not have the time or resources to create an extensive plan to recover from business interruptions. IBHS is a leading national expert on preparing for, and repairing, rebuilding, and recovering from catas…
This report makes the case for building climate resilience as essential to future business survival. It projects that within 20 years, US$200bn of investment each year will be needed globally to combat US$1trn of losses from climate impacts. A third of this is likely to offer strong returns on investment. The balance will need more innovative public-pri…
This publication discusses several cases of collaborations between various stakeholders to achieve resilience to disaster risk. In fact it explains how collaboration among business, government and NGOs could be the key to living with turbulence and change in the 21st Century These collaborations combine the capacities, talents, reach and resou…
Multisectoral partnerships are increasingly being mentioned as a mechanism to deliver and improve disaster risk management. In this paper, the authors investigate how partnerships can incentivise flood risk reduction by focusing on the UK public-private partnership on flood insurance. The findings of this publication are relevant for wider discussi…
This report reviews the decision-making process for new infrastructure and emphasises the need to embed resilience into this process and practical guidance to do so. It is based on findings that show critical infrastructure is highly vulnerable to, and a major casualty of, natural disasters. Repairing or replacing infrastructure after a natural disaster…
This paper offers a new approach for systematically linking catastrophe bonds and conventional project finance to support large-scale resilience projects. It describes the RE.bound Program framework for catastrophe modeling, bond structuring, and bond sponsorship; summarize key insights and lessons for extending the approach to a range of resilience app…
This paper uses the construction sector organisations in New Zealand as a case study of the impact of disaster risk reduction on business functioning after an event.
The paper concludes that in order to ensure that the disaster recovery and reconstruction programs are successfully
implemented, it is necessary for construction organisations t…
In the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, a majority of the designated evacuation centers (mostly in the form of school buildings or public gymnasiums) were severely damaged. In the drive to build back better and safer, the Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation and its partners aimed to build safer and more structurally sound, dual‐purpose evacuat…
This Strategic Framework 2016–20 articulates the way forward in increasing knowledge, capacity building and advocacy, partnerships and investments, as part of a collective struggle toward disaster and climate resilient development in Africa. The Framework describes the plan of the World Bank to bring early warning systems to 100…
This memorandum for the heads of executive departments and agencies institutionalizes the National Drought Resilience Partnership (NDRP), which builds upon the National Integrated Drought Information System, an interagency program led by the Department of Commerce.
The memorandum notes that it is the policy of the Federal Government to coordinate and us…
This report focuses on forestry insurance and includes a comparative analysis of South Africa, China, Chile, Sweden and France. It explains how the re/insurance industry can help to close the protection gap and ensure that planted forests are managed in an ecologically sound and economically viable way, by addressing the related risks and collaborating…
This paper estimates natural catastrophe property losses from historical and modelled perspectives in Latin America and assesses what can be done to close the gap. It analyses the role of the public and private sectors and how these can help change buying behaviours and market structures.
Key insights include:
Fueled by economic development and rapid…
This report identifies real estate projects in the United States designed to perform well in the face of climate-related threats and to illuminate ways in which investments in resilience strategies provide financial and other returns.
It includes ten detailed case studies based on interviews with developers and property owners about their motivation to…
This paper proposes a simple conceptual framework for public–private partnerships in emergency and disaster management that could be applied to research and policy analysis in Australia. The framework proposes three dimensions:
sector types (public, business and community)
partnership arrangements (legislated and formal to informal agreements)
part…