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This paper examines the potential cost of offsetting increased flooding risk from climate change, based on simulations from a climate model of extreme floods out to 2050. The remainder of the...
This assessment report addresses the 2008 tropical storm and flood in Yemen. It covers the disaster in general including its toll and the response, the macroeconomic and poverty impact, immediate...
This report has been prepared jointly by the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank with significant technical contribution from One UN and financial and technical support from the Global...
The catastrophic risk analysis quantifies the risks of hazard, exposure, vulnerability, and loss, thus providing the decision maker with the necessary information to make optimum decisions on risk...
This resource examine the legal and policy measures in minimizing legal barriers and encourages effective national and international responses to disaster and communicable diseases in Cambodia....
Recommends legal and policy measures to minimize legal barriers and encourages effective national and international responses to disasters and communicable diseases in Cambodia.
This handbook advocates for what the World Bank and several other agencies have defined as owner-driven reconstruction, which has proven to be the most empowering, dignified, sustainable, and cost...
This document is aimed at mainstreaming the methodology for disaster damage and loss assessment (DaLA). It provides indispensable reference material for training programs to build institutional...
This toolkit was conceived for the use of two groups of World Bank Group (WBG) staff and consultants. The primary target users consist of social protection and labor (SPL) specialists who help WBG...