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Dull Disasters? - How planning ahead will make a difference (Hardcover)
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Dull Disasters? - How planning ahead will make a difference (Hardcover)
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY
3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online
and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open
access locations. In recent years, typhoons have struck the
Philippines and Vanuatu; earthquakes have rocked Haiti, Pakistan,
and Nepal; floods have swept through Pakistan and Mozambique;
droughts have hit Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia; and more. All led
to loss of life and loss of livelihoods, and recovery will take
years. One of the likely effects of climate change is to increase
the likelihood of the type of extreme weather events that seems to
cause these disasters. But do extreme events have to turn into
disasters with huge loss of life and suffering? Dull Disasters?
harnesses lessons from finance, political science, economics,
psychology, and the natural sciences to show how countries and
their partners can be far better prepared to deal with disasters.
The insights can lead to practical ways in which governments, civil
society, private firms, and international organizations can work
together to reduce the risks to people and economies when a
disaster looms. Responses to disasters then become less emotional,
less political, less headline-grabbing, and more business as usual
and effective. The book takes the reader through a range of
solutions that have been implemented around the world to respond to
disasters. It gives an overview of the evidence on what works and
what doesn't and it examines the crucial issue of disaster risk
financing. Building on the latest evidence, it presents a set of
lessons and principles to guide future thinking, research, and
practice in this area.
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