What is multi-criteria analysis (MCA)?
Multi-criteria analysis is a complementary approach to cost-benefit analysis (CBA). It is a two-stage decision procedure. The first stage identifies a set of goals or
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What are the tools other than the traditional cost-benefit analysis for making financial decisions?
Traditionally, cost-benefit analysis quantifies in monetary terms as many of the costs and benefits of a proposal as feasible, including items for which the market
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What are public catastrophe funds?
A public catastrophe fund is a pre-disaster measure where the government implicitly self-insures by setting aside money to finance some of the recovery needs
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How does the use of flood plains to help reduce poverty?
In many developing countries there is a strong need for better utilization of the agro-economic potential of flood plains to provide scope for reducing people’s
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What are the major challenges of assessment of benefits from flood management projects?
There are several challenges of assessment of direct benefits from flood management projects. First, flood management projects are usually taken up in the aftermath of
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What are the differences between financial and economic analysis?
Financial and economic analyses have similar features. Both estimate the net-benefits of a project investment based on the difference between the with-project and the without-project
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Why is economic analysis essential?
Economic analysis is essential because the techniques of economics are geared to attempt a “balance” between two or more objectives, IFM needs adequate understanding
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What is Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)?
A systematic process for evaluating the environmental consequences of proposed policy, plan or program initiatives in order to ensure that they are fully included
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What is the relationship between the level of flood risks and people’s awareness about it?
Unless the population is aware of the risks it faces, local energies cannot be mobilized to build resilience. Unawareness increases the level of flood risks.
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How can local communities at the village level work for flood emergency preparedness ?
The community at the village level work for emergency preparedness for flooding through; Identifying and maintaining of safe havens, safe areas and temporary shelters Putting
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How can the affected communities share the cost of risk reduction?
While the inherent capacities of the communities (including financial) have never been factored in and utilized in structural measures which require large financial resources, the
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How can communities organise themselves during flood emergency?
When flooding is inevitable, it is important to organize communities and take measures which reduce the adverse impacts of such a situation on the daily
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