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Dull Disasters?: How planning ahead will make a difference

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In up to date 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 most likely effects of climate change is to increase the likelihood of the kind of extreme weather events that seems to cause these disasters. But do extreme events have to become 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 may also be far better prepared to handle 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 change into less emotional, less political, less headline-grabbing, and more business as usual and effective.

The book takes the reader through a range of solutions which have been implemented world wide to respond to disasters. It gives an overview of the evidence on what works and what doesn’t and it examines the the most important issue of disaster risk financing. Building on the up to date evidence, it presents a set of lessons and principles to guide future thinking, research, and practice in this area.

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