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Safer communities through disaster risk reduction: the cost (and savings) of doing business

Organizer(s) InterAction
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In person
Venue
American Red Cross, 430 17th Street NW
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In honour of DRR Day on 8 October, InterAction's Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group is holding a seminar from 13:30 to 17:00 to explore tools for cost-benefit analysis, focusing largely on economic implications of disaster risk reduction. Current field-based research and case studies will be used to analyze the value of investing in programs to reduce vulnerable communities’ exposure to disasters and equip them with skills to better cope and recover. Guest speakers include Ian O’Donnell of the World Bank Provention Consortium, Courtenay Venton of Environmental Resources Management and Shabbar Saifee of FEMA. Those interested in participating are requested to RSVP to Jillian Robbins by 6 October.

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Themes Insurance and risk transfer Economics of DRR Social impacts and social resilience
Country and region United States of America Americas
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