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Disaster prevention for sustainable development : economic and policy issues / edited by Mohan Munasinghe and Caroline Clarke.

Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction and World Bank, 1995.Description: viii, 108 p. : ill. ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 0821332120 (pbk)
DDC classification:
  • 363.3409172 20
Contents:
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"A Report from the Yokohama World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction May 23-27, 1994"

Includes bibliographical references.

Economic aspects of disasters and sustainable development: an introduction -- The impacts of natural disasters on developing economies: implications for the international development and disaster community -- Vulnerability to disaster and sustainable development: a general framework for assessing vulnerability -- Advantages and limitations of benefit-cost analysis for evaluating investments in natural disaster mitigation -- A review of the disaster-related activities of the Asian Development Bank: an economic perspective -- The role of insurance in reducing losses from natural hazards

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