Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 129
Cover Image
The impact of flooding on the value of residential property in the UK
Lamond, Jessica Elizabeth - 2008
the current paradigms for inclusion of insurance into flood modelling. A wide-ranging review of data sources, including … discussion with industry experts, has identified the requirement to generate primary data on the availability and cost of flood … flood modelling and incorporates ideas from the wider house price analysis literature. Data collected via a questionnaire …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009458970
Cover Image
Klimaschutz und Ernährungssicherheit : ein ordnungspolitischer Ansatz
Presse, André; Häußner, Ludwig Paul; Köke, Sonja - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434475
Cover Image
Product Carbon Footprinting in the Tourism Industry
Schmidt, Alexander - 2010
Since about 40 percent of the overall emissions are caused by consumers and already 81 percent of all consumers would prefer low carbon products if they had the choice, it would be a desirable goal to increase the demand for climate friendly products in addition to regulatory requirements or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009461025
Cover Image
Political Economy of climate change, ecological destruction and uneven development
School of Economics and Finance
The purpose of this paper is to analyze climate change and ecological destruction through the prism of the core general principles of political economy. The paper starts with the principle of historical specificity, and the various waves of climate change through successive cooler and warmer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434801
Cover Image
State of the Art: Carbon Emission Accountability Modeling
Lo, Valencia; Potdar, Vidyasagar - 2010
Global warming is becoming a big problem and carbon emissions from a variety of sources are the cause of it. To control emission, a number of carbon emission reduction policies and schemes such as the Kyoto Protocol & COP15 treaty have been reached and put in place. However, not all countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435015
Cover Image
Submission to the Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Committee – Inquiry Into the Effects of Climate Change on Training and Employment Needs
Hampson, Keith D.; Furneaux, Craig W.; Scuderi, Peter - 2008
the built environment. The planned successor to this CRC – the Sustainable Built Environment Centre will further progress environmental sustainability for the built environment as the Centre’s future is confirmed in early 2009. We would like to thank the Senate Committee for the opportunity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438330
Cover Image
Asset identification : addressing the climate change in public asset management process
Hanis, Muhammad Hasbi; Susilawati, Connie; … - 2011
Climate change is becoming increasingly apparent that is largely caused by human activities such as asset management processes, from planning to disposal, of property and infrastructure. One essential component of asset management process is asset identification. The aims of the study are to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438379
Cover Image
Managing catastrophic risk by alternative risk transfer instruments
Ou Yang, Chieh - 2010
Chapter 1 analyzes hybrid-trigger CAT bonds, a new CAT bond deal that can reduce basis risk and eliminate moral hazard simultaneously. It is the first research that provides analytical evidence on the condition under which the hybrid trigger has lower basis risk. Simulation results support my...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438957
Cover Image
MANAGING CATASTROPHIC RISK BY ALTERNATIVE RISK TRANSFER INSTRUMENTS
Ou Yang, Chieh - 2010
Chapter 1 analyzes hybrid-trigger CAT bonds, a new CAT bond deal that can reduce basis risk and eliminate moral hazard simultaneously. It is the first research that provides analytical evidence on the condition under which the hybrid trigger has lower basis risk. Simulation results support my...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439051
Cover Image
Climate change, carbon prices and insurance systems
Phelan, Liam; Henderson-Sellers, Ann; Taplin, Ros - 2010
Market approaches to limit CO2e emissions such as carbon taxes and emissions trading schemes (ETSs) aim to avoid dangerous anthropogenic climate change by ascribing a financial cost to emissions. Yet such approaches have failed to establish either emissions limits or carbon prices equal to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441812