Realising the 'Triple Dividend of Resilience' A New Business Case for Disaster Risk Management /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Surminski, Swenja (Editor), Tanner, Thomas (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Climate Risk Management, Policy and Governance,
• Subjects: Climate change.; Natural disasters.; Environmental economics.; Economics.; Environmental Economics.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Climate Change Management and Policy.; Natural Hazards.

Why aren’t we investing more in disaster resilience, despite the rising costs of disaster events? This book argues that decision-makers in governments, businesses, households, and development agencies tend to focus on avoiding losses from disasters, and perceive the return on investment as uncertain...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. The triple dividend of resilience – a new narrative for disaster risk management and development
• Chapter 2. Unlocking economic potential: the ‘development dividend’ of resilience
• Chapter 3. Co-benefits of disaster risk management: the third dividend of resilience
• Chapter 4. Disaster risk management and fiscal policy: entry points for finance ministries.-Chapter 5. Capturing the co-benefits of disaster risk management in the private sector
• Chapter 6. Investing in disaster risk management in an uncertain climate
• Chapter 7. Financial crises and economic resilience: lessons for disaster risk management and resilience dividends. .