UID:
almafu_9958125489202883
Format:
xii, 193 pages :
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illustrations ;
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28 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-280-01527-6
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9786610015276
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0-585-34593-7
Series Statement:
Disaster risk management series ; no. 2
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I RISK IDENTIFICATION -- Developing Countries and the Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters -- Economic Aspects of Floods: The Case of Argentina -- Floods in Buenos Aires: Learning from the Past -- Climate, Change, and Disasters -- PART II RISK REDUCTION -- Infrastructure, Natural Disasters, and Poverty -- Flooding Issues: The Case of the United States -- Cultural Heritage and Natural Disasters: Incentives for Risk Management and Mitigation -- Single- Family Housing: The Window of Opportunity for Mitigation Following Natural Disaster -- Women and Children Facing Disaster -- Climate Change from a Development Perspective -- PART III RISK TRANSFER AND FINANCE -- Risk and Insurance by the Poor in Developing Nations -- Financing Disaster Mitigation for the Poor -- Moral Dimensions of Risk Transfer and Reduction Strategies -- Risk Transfer and Finance Experience in the Caribbean -- Incentives for Mitigation Investment and More Effective Risk Management: The Need for Public- Private Partnerships -- Catastrophe Insurance and Mitigating Disaster Losses: A Possible Happy Marriage?.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8213-4726-8
Language:
English
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
Volltext
(Deutschlandweit zugänglich)
URL:
http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/0-8213-4726-8
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