Building Back Better : Achieving Resilience through Stronger, Faster, and More Inclusive Post-Disaster Reconstruction

The 2017 Unbreakable report made the case that disaster losses disproportionately affect poor people. The Caribbean hurricane season of 2017 was a tragic illustration of this. Two category 5 hurricanes wreaked destruction on numerous small islands, causing severe damages on islands like Barbuda, Dom...

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Main Authors: Hallegatte, Stéphane, Rentschler, Jun, Walsh, Brian
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29867