Assessing the Real Cost of Disasters - The Need for Better Evidence

Intro
 Foreword
 Acknowledgements
 Table of contents
 Executive Summary
 Introduction
 1. Improving the Evidence Base on the Costs of Disasters
 1.1. The rationale for improving the evidence base on the costs of disasters
 The importance of assessing critical infrastructure damage and losses
 The value of disaster loss data collected by non-government agencies
 Economic cost information for project level decisions and macro policy evaluations
 Comprehensive damage and loss data foster a whole-of-society engagement in disaster risk management 1.2. The benefits of recording public disaster risk management expendituresTracking disaster risk management expenditure in a central framework enables a better understanding of potential disaster-related contingent liabilities
 Transparency in the allocation of disaster risk management expenditures
 1.3. Conclusion
 References
 2. Progress in measuring and accounting for disaster damage and losses in OECD countries
 2.1. Introduction
 2.2. Accounting for the cost of disasters: What needs to get measured and how 2.3. Accounting for the cost of disasters: Countries' approaches to measuring disaster damages and lossesCentralised versus fragmented approaches to collecting disaster damage and loss data
 Formal conditions for establishing disaster damage and loss repositories
 Single versus multi-hazard databases
 Thresholds and time periods covered by disaster loss data differs significantly across countries
 Accessibility of disaster damage and loss information
 2.4. Comprehensiveness of disaster damage and loss information Distributional disaster impacts: differentiating costs by type of actor that incurs themComparability of existing national level disaster damage and loss data
 2.5. Estimating disaster damages and losses ex-ante
 2.6. Discussion of results
 Notes
 References
 3. Public expenditures for disaster risk management: Assessing the state of the art
 3.1. Introduction
 3.2. Expenditure for disaster risk management --
what measures are needed?
 3.3. Overview of country practices collecting disaster risk management expenditure information
 Japan
 Australia
 Switzerland
 France
 Austria Colombia and MexicoUnited States of America
 3.4. Discussion of results
 Notes
 References
 4. Summary and next steps
 4.1. Revisiting the rationale
 4.2. Summary of the main findings
 Going forward
 Annex A. Improving the Evidence Base on the Costs of Disasters: OECD Expert Meeting Summaries
 The objectives of the meeting were to:
 The objectives of the meeting were to:
 Annex B. OECD country survey and list of institutions of country responses
 Annex A. Improving the Evidence Base on the Costs of Disasters: OECD Expert Meeting Summaries