Part I Understanding the Context: Investing in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in Asia

1. Financing Investment in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation: Opportunities and Challenges

Mikio Ishiwatari and Daisuke Sasaki

2. Financing in Climate Change Adaptation

Ryo Fujikura

3. Recent Trends in Disaster Risk Reduction Investments: A Literature Review

Daisuke Sasaki and Mikio Ishiwatari

Part II Case Studies

4. Exploring people's perception of disaster risk reduction investment for flood management: the case of Jakarta floods in Indonesia

Dicky Pelupessy, Yasuhito Jibiki, Daisuke Sasaki

5. Factors influencing climate change adaptation investment by local government units in the Philippines

Kaori Shiohara

6. Financing Infrastructure of DRR: Possibility of integrating investments in maintenance and DRR

Daijiro Mizutani

7. Financing Climate-Resilient Coasts: Tracking Multilateral Aid for Ocean and Coastal Adaptation to Climate Change in Asia-Pacific

Nagisa Shiiba

Tsukasa Katsube

9. Is the Post Disaster Needs Assessment Important to Investment in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation? Lessons from Indonesia and the Philippines Based on Literature Review

Yasuhito Jibiki, Dicky Pelupessy, Daisuke Sasaki, and Kanako Iuchi

Part III Policy for Bridging Gaps

10. Estimating the Benefits of Flood Protection-Reviewing the Transition of the Cost-Benefit Analysis Manual in Japan and the Implementation Status of the International Flood Protection Project-

Masashi Sakamoto, Daisuke Sasaki, Mikio Ishiwatari

11. Nature-based solutions for river restoration in Japan

Keigo Nakamura

12. Future Perspectives of Financing Investment in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation

Mikio Ishiwatari and Daisuke Sasaki

Dr. Mikio Ishiwatari is a senior advisor on disaster management and water resources management at the Japan International Cooperation Agency, and a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo. He has been engaged in projects and research work on disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and water issues. He led the formulation of the Japanese assistance policies of climate change adaptation and community-based disaster management.

At the World Bank he worked as a senior disaster risk management specialist and published Learning from Megadisaster: Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake. He worked in various positions at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport, Japan, for 17 years, and was responsible for research and technology development as a senior deputy director for river technology and information. He also worked as an urban development specialist at the Asian Development Bank. He holds a Ph.D. in international studies and an M.Sc. in urban engineering from The University of Tokyo.

He has been continuously conducting research focusing on the factors that might hinder the resolution of regional issues from the perspective of international cooperation both qualitatively and quantitatively, and also engaged in plenty of international collaborative research with several universities in the Asia-Pacific region.

Dr. Sasaki has published a number of articles in refereed journals including the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR), and he has served as a guest editor for several special issues of the Journal of Disaster Research (JDR).