Chapter 13 Housing sector considerations in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

Tran, Phong; Tinh, Bui Duc

doi:10.1108/s2040-7262(2010)0000004019

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“…These issues have raised climate awareness, which has motivated the implementation of risk reduction and damage prevention programs for housing in many developed and developing countries (Hochrainer-Stigler et al 2011). These disaster risk reduction policies and measures provide the first line of defense in adaptation to climate change, and one important action is integrating disaster risk and climate change impact considerations into housing sector planning and policy (Phong and Tihn 2010). There are studies that deal with impact and cost-benefit analysis of prevention programs, because housing is considered one of the most valuable, but also vulnerable, areas impacted by climate change.…”

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Evaluation of Early Action Mechanisms in Peru Regarding Preparedness for El Niño

Aguirre

Ugarte

Bazo

et al. 2019

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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In this article, we provide an impact evaluation of an intervention in Peru regarding preparedness for El Niño impacts in Picsi District of Chiclayo Province in Peru's northwestern coastal Lambayeque region. This effort involved the provision of special kits that reduce the potential damage to homes as a consequence of rainfall and floods associated with an El Niño-Southern Oscillation event. Information was collected in 2016 when this Forecast-based Financing early action was activated by an El Niño forecast, and after a coastal El Niño actually struck in 2017. This dual database permits us to estimate the impact of the intervention on the damage level of homes by comparing those homes supported by the program with those homes not receiving pilot-program support. This comparison is achieved by using propensity score matching techniques, which identify the most comparable homes to the ones that were supported by the intervention. The main findings of the study suggest a positive impact of the program in terms of its effectiveness in mitigating the damage caused by the 2017 El Niño. These results suggest a drop in the scale of house damage (less damage) by around 63% for a home that received the modular kit treatment. When considering other specifications of the model, the decrease in the scale of house damage improves up to approximately 66%.

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confidence: 99%