Lessons learned from the events of 11 March 2011
This document provides reviews and articles by many of the presenters from the seminar on disaster risk reduction hosted by the Geneva Association in October 2013 in Sendai, Japan, a city devastated by the earthquake and ensuing tsunami in of March 2011. The meeting provided a forum for the discussion of the risk management lessons learned from that disaster and the implications for global disaster risk reduction measures elsewhere in the world.
The document includes contributions on the state of global development in disaster risk reduction and its relevance for the insurance industry, on managing risks in a changing climate, on recent developments in risk assessment and risk research, and on the importance of public–private partnership programmes in the Asia-Pacific region.