This book presents papers on several events organized by the World Bank's Disaster Management Fund (DMF). The DMF's objectives are to help the Bank provide a more strategic and rapid response to disaster emergencies and to integrate disaster prevention and mitigation measures in all Bank activities. Part I of this book on risk identification contains chapters on the economic impacts on natural disasters in developing countries, including flooding, with the example of Buenos Aires
and time scales of climate and disaster. Part II explores aspects of reducing disaster risk, such as the relationship of infrastructure, natural disasters, and poverty
flooding issues in the United States, incentives for risk management and mitigation concerning cultural heritage
issues related to single-family housing, women, and children
and climate change from a development perspective. Part III looks at strategies for developing countries to more effectively share and transfer disaster risk from the angles of risk and insurance by the poor in developing countries
financing disaster mitigation for the poor
moral dimensions of risk transfer and reduction strategies
incentives for mitigation investment and risk management to encourage public-private partnerships
and linking catastrophe insurance and mitigating disaster losses.