Investing in Disaster Risk Reduction: A Global Fund

Ilan Noy

No 18703, Working Paper Series from Victoria University of Wellington, School of Economics and Finance

Abstract: I focus on three issues that are, in my view, the most pertinent to addressing the need to deal with catastrophic, low-probability storms and earthquakes (most likely to occur in Asia and/or the Caribbean): (1) the large benefits and benefit/cost ratios from early-warning systems; (2) the feasibility of an international disaster risk reduction intervention fund and its guiding principles, and (3) an evaluation of the Copenhagen Consensus methodology that relate to the Kunreuther and Michel-Kerjan challenge paper.

Keywords: disasters; risk reduction; funding; Copenhagen Consensus methodology; early-warning systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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