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Catastrophic risk, precautionary abatement, and adaptation transfers

Bosello, Francesco; De Cian, Enrica; Ferranna, Licia - 2014

This paper contributes to the normative literature on mitigation and adaptation by framing the question of their optimal policy balance in the context of catastrophic climate risk. The analysis uses the WITCH integrated assessment model with a module that models the endogenous risk of...

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Insurance supervision under climate change : a pioneers detection method

Vansteenberghe, Eric - 2023

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Improving flood damage assessment models in Italy

Amadio, Mattia; Myšiak, Jaroslav; Carrera, Lorenzo; … - 2015

Flood damage assessments are often based on Stage-Damage Curve (SDC) models that estimate economic damage as a function of flood characteristics, typically flood depths, and land use. SDCs are developed through site-specific analysis but rarely adjusted to economic circumstances in areas to...

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Reflections on the current debate on how to link flood insurance and disaster risk reduction in the European Union

Surminski, S.; Aerts, Jeroen C. J. H.; Botzen, W. J. Wouter - 2015

Flood insurance differs widely in scope and form across Europe. Against the backdrop of rising flood losses a debate about the role of EU policy in shaping the future of this compensation tool is led by policy makers and industry. In this paper we investigate if and how current EU policies...

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Partnerships for affordable and equitable disaster insurance

Myšiak, Jaroslav; Pérez-Blanco, C. D. - 2015

natural catastrophes. Amidst budgetary cuts, there is a growing concern on societies' ability to design solvent disaster …

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Quantifying catastrophic and climate impacted hazards based on local expert opinions

Keighley, Tim; Longden, Thomas; Mathew, Supriya; … - 2014

The analysis of catastrophic and climate impacted hazards is a challenging but important exercise, as the occurrence of such events is usually associated with high damage and uncertainty. Often, at the local level, there is a lack of information on rare extreme events, such that available data...

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Financing India's disaster risk resilience strategy

Ray, Saon; Jain, Samridhi; Thakur, Vasundhara - 2021

disaster risk resilience (DRR). This paper tries to emphasise the importance of DRR in dealing with natural catastrophesby … sectors.Despite the suite of reforms that have been initiated in shifting towards resilient infrastructure and disaster funds …

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Orienting flood risk management to disaster risk creation : lessons from the Water Framework Directive

Cazzola, Giacomo - 2022

This paper proposes an application of the analytical path assembled within my PhD research on Disaster Risk Creation … challenges, for spatial planning and disaster risk management, in understanding, evaluating, and addressing Disaster Risk (DR … methodological approach benefits from well-established theoretical models of causal analysis of Disaster Risk Creation processes as …

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Competitive screening in insurance markets with endogenous wealth heterogeneity

Netzer, Nick; Scheuer, Florian - 2009 - Revised version

We examine equilibria in competitive insurance markets with adverse selection when wealth differences arise endogenously from unobservable savings or labor supply decisions. The endogeneity of wealth implies that high risk individuals may ceteris paribus exhibit the lower marginal willingness to...

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A lifecycle approach to insurance solvency

Dai, Yuechen; Xu, Tonghui - 2021

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