TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kreimer,Alcira
AU  - Arnold,Margaret
AU  - Arnold,Margaret
TI  - Managing Disaster Risk in Emerging Economies
SN  - 9781280015274
AV  - HV551.5.D44 -- M35 2000eb 
U1  - 363.34/09172/4 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Washington
PB  - World Bank Publications
KW  - Emergency management -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries
KW  - Emergency management -- Developing countries -- Planning
KW  - Disaster relief -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries
KW  - Disaster relief -- Developing countries -- Planning
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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?
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