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The news from Haiti about the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew is a familiar story: more chaos, rubble, and loss of life from another natural disaster. Though recent improvements to Haiti’s infrastructure at the local level kept the death toll at 534—3,000 died in the 2004 hurricane; more than 200,000 in the 2010 earthquake—the number is still way too high.<br />
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Worldwide, natural disasters claimed 1.3 million lives between 1992 and 2012, with earthquakes accounting for 60%of disaster deaths in low- and middle-income countries, where the preponderance of sub-standard housing increases the risks. <span class="shareable-quote"><a class="popup" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Today%2C+1.2+billion+people+live+in+substandard+housing.+By+2030%2C+this+figure+will+almost+triple&url=http://tinyurl.com/yb5zxggl&via=WBG_Cities" >Today, 1.2 billion people live in substandard housing. By 2030, this figure will almost triple<img class="flipboard-image" class="tw-icon-over" src="/sites/all/modules/wb_helper/images/iconm-twitter-gray.png"></a></span>.<br />
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The good news is that most of those deaths and property losses can be prevented. In 2003, for example, within three days of each other, earthquakes of similar magnitude struck Paso Robles, California and Bam, Iran. The death toll in Bam was 40,000—nearly half the city’s population. Two people died in Paso Robles.<br />
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<span class="shareable-quote"><a class="popup" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Even+when+destruction+does+take+place%2C+proper+planning+and+measures+can+ensure+a+speedy+recovery&url=http://tinyurl.com/yb5zxggl&via=WBG_Cities" >Even when destruction does take place, proper planning and measures can ensure a speedy recovery<img class="flipboard-image" class="tw-icon-over" src="/sites/all/modules/wb_helper/images/iconm-twitter-gray.png"></a></span>. In 2005, within weeks after Hurricane Katrina flooded 80% of New Orleans and damaged 500,000 houses—the costliest disaster in U.S. history—the authorities identified the owners and assessed the losses, providing the banks, insurance companies, real estate and utility companies with the information they needed to rebuild. The city invested in a $14.5 billion hurricane and flood protection system that created high-paying jobs and an urban renaissance.
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What made the difference? A kind of knowledge infrastructure that is able to survive natural disasters—i.e. documented and easily updated public records that store a society’s essential legal and economic knowledge, such as identity documents, cadaster maps, urban plans, hazard maps, inventories of public roads infrastructure, and private property records. The trustworthy information and data in these public knowledge repositories facilitate transactions across the economy: New Orleans authorities quickly salvaged the city's legal property records, and determined who owned and owed what and where, who could be relocated quickly, who was creditworthy to finance reconstruction, and how to ensure access to energy and clean water for low-income residents.<br />
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By contrast, in developing countries, public knowledge systems tend to include economic information about only an elite minority of the population. Any viable strategy for decreasing the death and devastation caused by natural disasters and for ensuring rapid reconstruction to stimulate economic growth must build or strengthen these systems.<br />
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Where to start? We propose focusing on the following three action points:
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<strong>Building inventories of public assets and simplified cadasters</strong><em>.</em> Improving the management of public assets <a href="http://publicwealthofnations.com/">could yield returns greater than the world’s combined investment in housing, transport, power, water, and communications</a>. Inventories of public assets could allow authorities to assess the quality and need for retrofitting hospitals, schools, and other essential public infrastructure, and free up land for social housing. Simplified cadasters could help local governments collect the taxes to finance investments in risk mitigation or reconstruction. At the same time, simplified cadasters could become the basis for granting formal property documentation, a key measure that helps empower women and prevent domestic violence.</li>
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<a href="http://blogs.worldbank.org/sustainablecities/retrofitting-housing-policy-saves-lives"><strong>Retrofitting and formalizing informal constructions</strong></a><strong> to create insurance markets. </strong>While new technology allows successful formalization at a much faster pace and lower cost than previously, it often ignores informal constructions that are not up to building standards. This makes it difficult to insure those informal constructions and makes the assets of low-income residents—and the country’s public finances—vulnerable to natural disasters, in addition to undermining incentives for investment. To address the issue and ensure access to private insurance markets, <span class="shareable-quote"><a class="popup" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=informal+buildings+must+be+formalized+and+retrofitted+to+withstand+earthquakes+and+flooding&url=http://tinyurl.com/yb5zxggl&via=WBG_Cities" >informal buildings must be formalized and retrofitted to withstand earthquakes and flooding<img class="flipboard-image" class="tw-icon-over" src="/sites/all/modules/wb_helper/images/iconm-twitter-gray.png"></a></span>.</li>
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<strong>Incentivizing partnerships between authorities and the private sector for housing and neighborhood improvement. </strong><a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/urbandevelopment/publication/regenerating-urban-land-a-practitioners-guide-to-leveraging-private-investment">A recent World Bank report</a> shows, despite their institutional, political, and economic differences, eight cities in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the U.S. found ways to use their land assets and regulatory powers to leverage private resources and rejuvenate neglected urban areas.&nbsp;</li>
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It’s time to recognize that <span class="shareable-quote"><a class="popup" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=effective+housing+policies+must+go+beyond+creating+safer+and+more+affordable+dwellings&url=http://tinyurl.com/yb5zxggl&via=WBG_Cities" >effective housing policies must go beyond creating safer and more affordable dwellings<img class="flipboard-image" class="tw-icon-over" src="/sites/all/modules/wb_helper/images/iconm-twitter-gray.png"></a></span>. Governments must also rebuild their public knowledge infrastructure and legal wiring to incentivize private investment in the regeneration and rehabilitation of infrastructure, in order to give every homeowner, the chance to rebuild their homes and their lives when the next disaster strikes.</div></div></div>  </div>
  
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              <h3><a href="/sustainablecities/comment/929#comment-929" class="permalink" rel="bookmark">this proposal is a great help</a></h3>
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    <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>this proposal is a great help to most of the underdevelop countries.</p>
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              <h3><a href="/sustainablecities/comment/942#comment-942" class="permalink" rel="bookmark">Dear Hilario,</a></h3>
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    <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Dear Hilario,<br />
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    <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Use of life cycle cost (LCC) principles can help overcome the obvious funding challenges of building resilient infrastructure.  ASCE's Industry Leaders Council is actively engaged in developing LCC tools and solutions for use by practitioners and society under Grand Challenge program.</p>
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    <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Working with the US Forest Service, we have developed a manual titled Storm Damage Risk Reduction Guide for Low-Volume Roads. It discusses many simple and relatively inexpensive (and some expensive) repairs and measures that can be taken to "stormproof", or reduce the risk of road damage and failure from storms. I can send a digital copy to anyone interested, or it is available at:<br />
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              <h3><a href="/sustainablecities/comment/943#comment-943" class="permalink" rel="bookmark">Dear Chuck,</a></h3>
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    <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Dear Chuck,<br />
Thanks a lot for your feedback and reference.<br />
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    <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Moladi cast reinforced monolithic structures insitu We have developed our technology to address the issues mentioned in this article</p>
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              <h3><a href="/sustainablecities/comment/937#comment-937" class="permalink" rel="bookmark">Great article! We at moladi</a></h3>
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    <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Great article! We at moladi share in your enthusiasm to address the issue. The process of construction is faster than traditional brick and mortar, thereby reducing cost. the construction process is deskilled allowing for local labour to be utilized in the construction process - creating employment. The monolithic reinforced structure will withstand hurricanes and earthquakes without collapsing.</p>
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    <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Working with the US Forest Service, we have developed a manual titled Storm Damage Risk Reduction Guide for Low-Volume Roads. It discusses many simple and relatively inexpensive (and some expensive) repairs and measures that can be taken to "stormproof", or reduce the risk of road damage and failure from storms. I can send a digital copy to anyone interested, or it is available at:<br />
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