Investing in resilience : ensuring a disaster-resistant future.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bender, Stephen O., author.

Benson, Charlotte, 1963- author.

Contributor:

Asian Development Bank.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergency management--Finance.

Emergency management.

Natural disasters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, Philippines : Asian Development Bank, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Investing in Resilience: Ensuring a Disaster-Resistant Future focuses on the steps required to ensure that investment in disaster resilience happens and that it occurs as an integral, systematic part of development. At-risk communities in Asia and the Pacific can apply a wide range of policy, capacity, and investment instruments and mechanisms to ensure that disaster risk is properly assessed, disaster risk is reduced, and residual risk is well managed. Yet, real progress in strengthening resilience has been slow to date and natural hazards continue to cause significant loss of life, damage, and disruption in the region, undermining inclusive, sustainable development. Investing in Resilience offers an approach and ideas for reflection on how to achieve disaster resilience. It does not prescribe specific courses of action but rather establishes a vision of a resilient future. It stresses the interconnectedness and complementarity of possible actions to achieve disaster resilience across a wide range of development policies, plans, legislation, sectors, and themes. The vision shows how resilience can be accomplished through the coordinated action of governments and their development partners in the private sector, civil society, and the international community. The vision encourages investors to identify and prioritize bundles of actions that collectively can realize that vision of resilience, breaking away from the current tendency to pursue disparate and fragmented disaster risk management measures that frequently trip and fall at unforeseen hurdles. Investing in Resilience aims to move the disaster risk reduction debate beyond rhetoric and to help channel commitments into investment, incentives, funding, and practical action"

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Executive Summary""; ""Part I: Disasters and Development: Instruments and Mechanisms for Strengthened Resilience""; ""1. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back�Development and Disasters""; ""2. Disaster Losses in Asia and the Pacific""; ""3. A Potential Future: Rising Losses and Continued Development Setbacks""; ""4. Gaps and Obstacles to a Resilient Future""; ""5. Stimulating, Securing, and Sustaining Investment in a More Resilient Future""

""5.1 Stimulating Investment: Policy Change and Innovation""""5.2 Securing Investment: Implementing Resilience""; ""5.3 Sustaining Investment in Resilience: Strengthening Capacity and Capabilities""; ""Part II: Visions of the Future: Overcoming Gaps and Obstacles""; ""6. Introduction: The Backcasting Approach""; ""7. Journeys to Resilience: The X Stories""; ""7.1 A Country�s Journey to Resilience: A National Disaster Management Office Director�s Experience""; ""7.2 A City�s Journey to Resilience: A Story from a Long-Term City Resident""

""7.3 Pursuing a Path to Resilient Livelihoods: A Family�s Story""""8. Thematic and Sectoral Opportunities for Investing in Resilience""; ""8.1 Strengthened Livelihood Resilience to Disasters""; ""8.2 Risk-Sensitive Land Use Planning""; ""8.3 Safe Road Transport""; ""8.4 Safe Schools""; ""8.5 Safe Housing""; ""Part III: Financing Residual Risk""; ""9. The Role of Disaster Risk Financing in Building Resilience""; ""10. Commercial Market Perceptions of Disaster Risk Financing in Asia""; ""11. The Path Forward for Disaster Risk Financing in Asia and the Pacific""

""12. Policy-Based Investment Opportunities to Support Disaster Risk Financing Capacity Development""""Part IV: Achieving Resilience""; ""13. Conclusion""; ""References and Glossary""; ""References""; ""Glossary""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""H""; ""I""; ""L""; ""M""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""Tables""; ""1 Definitions of Resilience""; ""2 Average Annual and Probable Maximum Tropical Cyclone, Earthquake, and Tsunami Losses in the Pacific""; ""3 Average Annual and Probable Maximum Losses for Natural Hazards in Association of Southeast Asian Nations Member States""

""4 Benefit-to-Cost Analysis of Investments in Resilience in Asia and the Pacific""""5 Policy, Capacity, and Investment Actions for Risk-Sensitive Livelihood Development""; ""6 Processes and Tools for Risk-Sensitive Land Use Management""; ""7 Policy, Capacity, and Investment Actions for Risk-Sensitive Land Use Planning""; ""8 Policy, Capacity, and Investment Actions for a Resilient Road Transport Sector""; ""9 Policy, Capacity, and Investment Actions for Resilient Schools""; ""10 Policy, Capacity, and Investment Actions for Resilient Housing""; ""Figures""

""1 Loss of Life as a Consequence of Natural Hazards, 1971�2010""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print record version.

ISBN:

92-9092-950-2

OCLC:

855123617