Building Back Better : Achieving Resilience through Stronger, Faster, and More Inclusive Post-Disaster Reconstruction

The 2017 Unbreakable report made the case that disaster losses disproportionately affect poor people. The Caribbean hurricane season of 2017 was a tragic illustration of this. Two category 5 hurricanes wreaked destruction on numerous small islands, causing severe damages on islands like Barbuda, Dom...

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Main Authors:	Hallegatte, Stéphane, Rentschler, Jun, Walsh, Brian
Format:	Report
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	NATURAL DISASTERS SMALL ISLAND STATES ASSET LOSS CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE IMPACT INVESTMENT NEED VULNERABILITY TRANSPORT ACCESS TO SERVICES SOCIAL PROTECTION INFRASTRUCTURE DISASTER RECOVERY CLIMATE RESILIENCE HOUSING RECONSTRUCTION SOCIAL SAFETY NETS
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29867

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spelling	okr-10986-298672021-05-25T09:14:42Z Building Back Better : Achieving Resilience through Stronger, Faster, and More Inclusive Post-Disaster Reconstruction Hallegatte, Stéphane Rentschler, Jun Walsh, Brian NATURAL DISASTERS SMALL ISLAND STATES ASSET LOSS CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE IMPACT INVESTMENT NEED VULNERABILITY TRANSPORT ACCESS TO SERVICES SOCIAL PROTECTION INFRASTRUCTURE DISASTER RECOVERY CLIMATE RESILIENCE HOUSING RECONSTRUCTION SOCIAL SAFETY NETS The 2017 Unbreakable report made the case that disaster losses disproportionately affect poor people. The Caribbean hurricane season of 2017 was a tragic illustration of this. Two category 5 hurricanes wreaked destruction on numerous small islands, causing severe damages on islands like Barbuda, Dominica, and Saint Martin. The human cost of these disasters was immense, and the impact of this devastation was felt most strongly by poorer communities in the path of the storms. And yet, amidst the destruction it is essential to look forward and to build back better. In this 2018 report the authors explore how countries can strengthen their resilience to natural shocks through a better reconstruction process. Reconstruction needs to be strong, so that assets and livelihoods become less vulnerable to future shocks; fast, so that people can get back to their normal life as early as possible; and inclusive, so that nobody is left behind in the recovery process. The benefits of building back better could be very large – up to US$173 billion per year globally – and would be greatest among the communities and countries that are hit by disasters most intensely and frequently and that have limited coverage of social protection and financial inclusion. Small island states – because of their size, exposure, and vulnerability – are among the countries where building back better has the greatest potential. A stronger, faster, and more inclusive recovery would lead to an average reduction in disaster-related well-being losses of 59 percent in the 17 small island states covered in the report. 2018-06-14T19:37:00Z 2018-06-14T19:37:00Z 2018-06-18 Report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29867 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Risk and Vulnerability Assessment
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topic	NATURAL DISASTERS SMALL ISLAND STATES ASSET LOSS CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE IMPACT INVESTMENT NEED VULNERABILITY TRANSPORT ACCESS TO SERVICES SOCIAL PROTECTION INFRASTRUCTURE DISASTER RECOVERY CLIMATE RESILIENCE HOUSING RECONSTRUCTION SOCIAL SAFETY NETS
spellingShingle	NATURAL DISASTERS SMALL ISLAND STATES ASSET LOSS CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE IMPACT INVESTMENT NEED VULNERABILITY TRANSPORT ACCESS TO SERVICES SOCIAL PROTECTION INFRASTRUCTURE DISASTER RECOVERY CLIMATE RESILIENCE HOUSING RECONSTRUCTION SOCIAL SAFETY NETS Hallegatte, Stéphane Rentschler, Jun Walsh, Brian Building Back Better : Achieving Resilience through Stronger, Faster, and More Inclusive Post-Disaster Reconstruction
description	The 2017 Unbreakable report made the case that disaster losses disproportionately affect poor people. The Caribbean hurricane season of 2017 was a tragic illustration of this. Two category 5 hurricanes wreaked destruction on numerous small islands, causing severe damages on islands like Barbuda, Dominica, and Saint Martin. The human cost of these disasters was immense, and the impact of this devastation was felt most strongly by poorer communities in the path of the storms. And yet, amidst the destruction it is essential to look forward and to build back better. In this 2018 report the authors explore how countries can strengthen their resilience to natural shocks through a better reconstruction process. Reconstruction needs to be strong, so that assets and livelihoods become less vulnerable to future shocks; fast, so that people can get back to their normal life as early as possible; and inclusive, so that nobody is left behind in the recovery process. The benefits of building back better could be very large – up to US$173 billion per year globally – and would be greatest among the communities and countries that are hit by disasters most intensely and frequently and that have limited coverage of social protection and financial inclusion. Small island states – because of their size, exposure, and vulnerability – are among the countries where building back better has the greatest potential. A stronger, faster, and more inclusive recovery would lead to an average reduction in disaster-related well-being losses of 59 percent in the 17 small island states covered in the report.
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author	Hallegatte, Stéphane Rentschler, Jun Walsh, Brian
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title	Building Back Better : Achieving Resilience through Stronger, Faster, and More Inclusive Post-Disaster Reconstruction
title_short	Building Back Better : Achieving Resilience through Stronger, Faster, and More Inclusive Post-Disaster Reconstruction
title_full	Building Back Better : Achieving Resilience through Stronger, Faster, and More Inclusive Post-Disaster Reconstruction
title_fullStr	Building Back Better : Achieving Resilience through Stronger, Faster, and More Inclusive Post-Disaster Reconstruction
title_full_unstemmed	Building Back Better : Achieving Resilience through Stronger, Faster, and More Inclusive Post-Disaster Reconstruction
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Building Back Better : Achieving Resilience through Stronger, Faster, and More Inclusive Post-Disaster Reconstruction

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