Disaster Mitigation is Cost Effective
The author provides a briefing on cost-benefit analyses (CBA) for disaster risk reduction (DRR), stating that the most cost-effective forms of DRR investment tend to be non-structural approaches, such as land use planning, warning systems, and household-level changes. These are often backed by struc...
Main Author: | Kelman, Ilan |
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2013
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16341 |
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