The contribution of economic and public-private cooperation instruments to the prevention and mitigation of natural hazards

摘要

Following an economic perspective the damage provoked by a major natural hazard means a loss of development resources for a territorial system as a whole. Public policies should therefore focus on damage prevention in order to minimise as much as possible the loss of territorial resources in case a major natural event occurs, particularly in presence of non-renewable resources. This means to draw attention not only to civil protection and damage management but also to state action goals and tools to enhance prevention and ex ante damage mitigation. The essay offers a brief survey of economic,market based and public-private cooperation instruments, some already tested in the management of natural hazards and some borrowed from successful experiences in the environmental protection field,for each instrument key features, functioning model and conditions and potentials of implementation in hazard and damage prevention field will be discussed.