International Recovery Platform

Policy research working paper 6216, background paper to the 2014 world development report:

This paper investigates the link between development, economic growth, and the economic losses from natural disasters in a general analytical framework, with an

This report argues that the practice of disaster risk management (DRM) is a defining characteristic of resilient societies, and should therefore be integrated – or ‘mainstreamed’ – into all aspects of development.

This document includes a set of 32 notes grouped into six thematic clusters: (i) structural measures; (ii) non-structural measures; (iii) emergency response; (iv) reconstruction planning; (v) hazard and risk information and decision making; and (vi) economics of disaster risk, risk management, and risk financing.