Incentives for mitigation investment and more effective risk management : the need for public-private partnerships.

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TextPublication details: [Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania], 1999Description: vDDC classification:

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Subject: This paper focuses on the type of incentives necessary to encourage the adoption of mitigation measures to reduce disaster losses. The word mitigation will be treated synonymously with loss prevention. Most risk mitigation measures (RMMs) have the following characteristics. There is an upfront investment cost (C) incurred either by a property owner or by the government. The expected benefits (B) from the loss prevention measure are the reduction in losses weighted by the chance that a disaster will occur during some pre-specified length of time (T). The value of T is often the expected life of the property

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July 5-9, 1999

Paper presented at the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, Geneva, Switzerland, July 5-9 1999

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This paper focuses on the type of incentives necessary to encourage the adoption of mitigation measures to reduce disaster losses. The word mitigation will be treated synonymously with loss prevention. Most risk mitigation measures (RMMs) have the following characteristics. There is an upfront investment cost (C) incurred either by a property owner or by the government. The expected benefits (B) from the loss prevention measure are the reduction in losses weighted by the chance that a disaster will occur during some pre-specified length of time (T). The value of T is often the expected life of the property

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