Incentives for Reducing Disaster Risk in Urban Areas

Download or read book Incentives for Reducing Disaster Risk in Urban Areas written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document summarizes experiences of Da Nang, Viet Nam; the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal; and Naga City in the Philippines in providing incentives for disaster risk reduction. It explains what incentives are, how they are currently used in the case study areas to encourage investments in disaster risk reduction, and how to foster an enabling environment for a successful incentive program. While these incentives are not designed with disaster risk reduction as the primary purpose, many of them have either indirectly contributed to reducing disaster risk or, with minor modification, could directly contribute to risk reduction.