INTRODUCTION
There are evidence to suggest that in many countries there has been an increase in the rise of natural disasters occurring – natural hazard rise – due to environmental degradation (World Bank 2002). Natural disasters are complex and multifaceted events resulting from mismanaged and unmanaged risks that reflect current condition and historical factors (Alexander 2000). Disaster risk is collective in its origin and remain a ‘public,’ shared risk that makes finding individual, and often community solutions, difficult (comfort 1999). A disaster is said to take place precisely because the losses originated by a given event overwhelm the capacity of a population (local, regional or national) to respond and recover from it. Disaster rise emerges from the interaction between a natural hazard – the external risk factor – and vulnerability – the internal risk factor (Cardona 2001).
International consciousness rising about integrated disaster risk management (of which disaster risk mitigation is a part) was given a boost by the recently concluded United Nations International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1Background to the study
1.2Statement of problem
1.3Research Questions
1.4Objectives of the Study
1.5Research Hypothesis
1.6Significance of the Study
1.7Scope of the study
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1Introduction
2.2Conceptual Background and Working Definition
2.2.1The Disaster Management Cycle
2.2.2The Role of Financial Institutions in Disaster Risk Mitigation Cycle Insurance
2.2.3Linking Disaster Risk Mitigation with Long-Term Sustainable
2.3Theoretical Framework
2.3.1Modern Disaster Theory
2.3.2Limitations of Disaster
2.3.3Conclusion: Modern Disaster Theory and the Efficient Frontier of Legal Preparedness
2.3.Empirical Literature review
2.3.1Disaster Risk management and Socio-economic development
2.4Funding options for Disaster Risk Management
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1Introduction
3.2Population of Study
3.3Sources of Data
3.4Method of Data Collection
3.5Method of Data Analysis
3.6Summary