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
1.1 Background to the study
1.2 Statement of problem
1.3 Research Questions
1.4 Objectives of the Study
1.5 Research Hypothesis
1.6 Significance of the Study
1.7 Scope of the study
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Conceptual Background and Working Definition
2.2.1 The Disaster Management Cycle
2.2.2 The Role of Financial Institutions in Disaster Risk Mitigation Cycle Insurance
2.2.3 Linking Disaster Risk Mitigation with Long-Term Sustainable
2.3 Theoretical Framework
2.3.1 Modern Disaster Theory
2.3.2 Limitations of Disaster
2.3.3 Conclusion: Modern Disaster Theory and the Efficient Frontier of Legal Preparedness
2.3. Empirical Literature review
2.3.1 Disaster Risk management and Socio-economic development
2.4 Funding options for Disaster Risk Management
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Population of Study
3.3 Sources of Data
3.4 Method of Data Collection
3.5 Method of Data Analysis
3.6 Summary