Managing disaster risk in emerging economies / / edited by Alcira Kreimer and Margaret Arnold
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| Titolo: |
Managing disaster risk in emerging economies / / edited by Alcira Kreimer and Margaret Arnold
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| Pubblicazione: | Washington, D.C., : World Bank, c2000 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | xii, 193 pages : illustrations ; ; 28 cm |
| Disciplina: | 363.34/09172/4 |
| Soggetto topico: | Emergency management - Economic aspects - Developing countries |
| Emergency management - Developing countries - Planning | |
| Disaster relief - Economic aspects - Developing countries | |
| Disaster relief - Developing countries - Planning | |
| Altri autori: |
KreimerAlcira
ArnoldMargaret <1965->
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| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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?. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Managing disaster risk in emerging economies |
| ISBN: | 1-280-01527-6 |
| 9786610015276 | |
| 0-585-34593-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811075003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Disaster risk management series ; ; no. 2.