No. 328: Managing Disaster Costs

Author(s): Simon Aebi
Editor(s): Névine Schepers
Series Editor(s): Névine Schepers, Fabien Merz
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 328
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2023

The increasing frequency and magnitude of climate-exacerbated hazards, coupled with the growing vulnerability of societies worldwide, are raising the financial costs of disasters. Governments finance a larger share of these costs through post-disaster measures. However, reducing risk and optimizing the allocation of pre-disaster resources can reduce the negative financial impact on governments.

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Allocation of Financial Resources to Disaster Risk Management