Book contents
- Extreme Natural Hazards, Disaster Risk and Societal Implications
- Series page
- Extreme Natural Hazards, Disaster Risks and Societal Implications
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Extreme hazards and disaster risks
- Part III Case studies: Latin America and the Caribbean region
- Part IV Case studies: Africa
- Part V Case studies: the Middle East
- Part VI Case studies: Asia and the Pacific Region
- Part VII Disaster risks and societal implications
- 26 The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction and the Hyogo Framework for Action (2005–2015): essential tools for meeting the challenges of extreme events
- 27 Disaster policy and climate change: how much more of the same?
- 28 Vulnerability, impacts, and adaptation to sea level related hazards taking an ecosystem-based approach
- 29 Extreme geohazards: risk management from a (re)insurance perspective
- 30 Hitting the poor: public–private partnership as an option
- Index
30 - Hitting the poor: public–private partnership as an option
Impact of natural catastrophes on economies at various stages of development
from Part VII - Disaster risks and societal implications
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2014
Book contents
- Extreme Natural Hazards, Disaster Risk and Societal Implications
- Series page
- Extreme Natural Hazards, Disaster Risks and Societal Implications
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Extreme hazards and disaster risks
- Part III Case studies: Latin America and the Caribbean region
- Part IV Case studies: Africa
- Part V Case studies: the Middle East
- Part VI Case studies: Asia and the Pacific Region
- Part VII Disaster risks and societal implications
- 26 The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction and the Hyogo Framework for Action (2005–2015): essential tools for meeting the challenges of extreme events
- 27 Disaster policy and climate change: how much more of the same?
- 28 Vulnerability, impacts, and adaptation to sea level related hazards taking an ecosystem-based approach
- 29 Extreme geohazards: risk management from a (re)insurance perspective
- 30 Hitting the poor: public–private partnership as an option
- Index
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