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Building Safer Cities: The Future of Disaster Risk
Disaster impacts are increasing in severity. Annual direct losses for weather-related events have increased from $3.9 million in the 1950s to $63 million in the 1990s. Moreover, a number of ongoing trends have the potential to cause even more severe and broader disaster impacts than ever before. These include increased environmental degradation, the impacts of climate change, population growth in cities, and globalization.In developing countries, disasters can cause major setbacks to economic and social development, inflict massive casualties, and cause the diversion of funds from development to emergency relief and recovery. By applying innovative approaches to disaster risk reduction and by empowering people through effective disaster reduction strategies, communities and government will be more resilient when disaster strikes and better able to protect their lives, homes, livelihoods and assets.
324 pages, Paperback
First published May 14, 2014
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World Bank Group
1,511 books26 followersThe World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries. It is the largest and most famous development bank in the world and is an observer at the United Nations Development Group. The bank is based in Washington, D.C. and provided around $61 billion in loans and assistance to "developing" and transition countries in the 2014 fiscal year. The bank's stated mission is to achieve the twin goals of ending extreme poverty and building shared prosperity. Its five organizations are the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the International Development Association (IDA), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
The World Bank's (the IBRD and IDA's) activities are focused on developing countries, in fields such as human development (e.g. education, health), agriculture and rural development (e.g. irrigation and rural services), environmental protection (e.g. pollution reduction, establishing and enforcing regulations), infrastructure (e.g. roads, urban regeneration, and electricity), large industrial construction projects, and governance (e.g. anti-corruption, legal institutions development). The IBRD and IDA provide loans at preferential rates to member countries, as well as grants to the poorest countries. Loans or grants for specific projects are often linked to wider policy changes in the sector or the country's economy as a whole. For example, a loan to improve coastal environmental management may be linked to development of new environmental institutions at national and local levels and the implementation of new regulations to limit pollution, or not, such as in the World Bank financed constructions of paper mills along the Rio Uruguay in 2006.
The World Bank's (the IBRD and IDA's) activities are focused on developing countries, in fields such as human development (e.g. education, health), agriculture and rural development (e.g. irrigation and rural services), environmental protection (e.g. pollution reduction, establishing and enforcing regulations), infrastructure (e.g. roads, urban regeneration, and electricity), large industrial construction projects, and governance (e.g. anti-corruption, legal institutions development). The IBRD and IDA provide loans at preferential rates to member countries, as well as grants to the poorest countries. Loans or grants for specific projects are often linked to wider policy changes in the sector or the country's economy as a whole. For example, a loan to improve coastal environmental management may be linked to development of new environmental institutions at national and local levels and the implementation of new regulations to limit pollution, or not, such as in the World Bank financed constructions of paper mills along the Rio Uruguay in 2006.
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November 14, 2020
Most of it being self-evident, modern cities need to be built better and need to take into account the stuff of nightmares modern times, climate change, new tech having new potential for disasters, all kinds of natural disasters getting spunkier with time.
Social vulnerability to disaster impacts seems to be bigger in the megacities which area special kind of hell if something happens a major risk due to concentration and dependence on the infrastrucrure.
Domino effects between life support networkds study is quite interesting.
Weather hazards for the coastal cities is another very timely topic.
Throw in all the globalization, with its benefits and risks and there is a lot to go over in such a study. Anyway, I would've liked there to be some snazzy innovative solutions since, well, I think it's to be expected that there are around all kinds or extra super risks. We still need to find new paths to improving our processes for disaster prevention and mitigation.
Social vulnerability to disaster impacts seems to be bigger in the megacities which are
Domino effects between life support networkds study is quite interesting.
Weather hazards for the coastal cities is another very timely topic.
Throw in all the globalization, with its benefits and risks and there is a lot to go over in such a study. Anyway, I would've liked there to be some snazzy innovative solutions since, well, I think it's to be expected that there are around all kinds or extra super risks. We still need to find new paths to improving our processes for disaster prevention and mitigation.
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