By Swenja Surminski,Thomas Tanner
Why aren’t we making an investment extra in catastrophe resilience, regardless of the emerging bills of catastrophe occasions? This e-book argues that decision-makers in governments, companies, families, and improvement businesses are likely to specialise in averting losses from failures, and understand the go back on funding as doubtful – basically realised if a a bit of not going catastrophe occasion really happens.
This ebook develops a brand new enterprise case for funding in response to the a number of dividends of resilience. This appears to be like past in simple terms refrained from losses (the first dividend) to the broader advantages won independently of even if the catastrophe occasion happens. those comprise unleashing entrepreneurial actions and effective investments via decreasing the looming risk of losses from mess ups and allowing companies, farmers and owners to take optimistic dangers (the moment dividend); and co-benefits of resilience measures past simply catastrophe threat (the 3rd dividend), reminiscent of flood embankments in Bangladesh that double as roads, or wetlands in Colombo that decrease city warmth extremes.
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