Overview
- Brings together different disciplines, and offers assessment from a variety of angles and at various scales, supported by a set of country case studies to provide empirical examples, and identify knowledge gaps
- Extends the resilience dividend concept by specifically focussing on those aspects that are generally not accounted for and not considered when making investment decisions
- Written by leading academics, but for a broader audience, focusing on advice and guidance for decision-makers, while venturing into a new research territory
- Very timely (with 2015 as a pivotal year for DRM), addressing a new field, with the intention of triggering further interest and work
- Content is peer-reviewed by the World Bank and external experts
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Climate Risk Management, Policy and Governance (CRMPG)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Why aren’t we investing more in disaster resilience, despite the rising costs of disaster events? This book argues that decision-makers in governments, businesses, households, and development agencies tend to focus on avoiding losses from disasters, and perceive the return on investment as uncertain – only realised if a somewhat unlikely disaster event actually happens.
This book develops a new business case for investment based on the multiple dividends of resilience. This looks beyond only avoided losses (the first dividend) to the wider benefits gained independently of whether or not the disaster event occurs. These include unleashing entrepreneurial activities and productive investments by lowering the looming threat of losses from disasters and enabling businesses, farmers and homeowners to take positive risks (the second dividend); and co-benefits of resilience measures beyond just disaster risk (the third dividend), such as flood embankments in Bangladesh that double as roads, or wetlands in Colombo that reduce urban heat extremes.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Realising the 'Triple Dividend of Resilience'
Book Subtitle: A New Business Case for Disaster Risk Management
Editors: Swenja Surminski, Thomas Tanner
Series Title: Climate Risk Management, Policy and Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40694-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40693-0Published: 12 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82157-3Published: 04 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40694-7Published: 25 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2510-1390
Series E-ISSN: 2510-1404
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 176
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Economics, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Climate Change Management and Policy, Natural Hazards