Changing the Game: How Business Innovations Reduce the Impact of Disasters

Set of case stuides from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation which explores how businesses are helping to reduce the impacts of disasters around the world. The report provides an interesting look at how companies and the Chamber of Commerce are seeing public-private partnership on disaster risk reduction.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, 2014.

Abstract, Full report
http://www.uschamberfoundation.org/best-practice/changing-game-how-business-innovations-reduce-impact-disasters, http://www.uschamberfoundation.org/sites/default/files/Changing%20the%20Game%202014_0.pdf

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