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Disaster insurance in developing Asia : an analysis of market-based schemes
Surminski, Swenja; Panda, Architesh; Lambert, Peter John - 2019
In recent years, insurance against natural disasters has gained recognition as an important tool for climate risk management that could, if carefully implemented, help increase the resilience of those insured. In response, insurance solutions are increasingly tested and applied in many countries...
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A gender-sensitive earthquake recovery assessment using administrative and satellite data : the Case of Indonesia's 2016 Aceh earthquake
Akter, Sonia; Chairunissa, Talitha Fauzia; Pundit, Madhavi - 2022
This study presents a gender-specific assessment of medium-term disaster recovery following a series of earthquakes in … and after the 2016 earthquake series. Similar to studies using the nighttime radiance to monitor disaster recovery and … months after the earthquakes were brighter relative to the changes of the unaffected villages, implying an improvement in …
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Natural hazards insurance in Europe : tailored responses to climate change needed
Schwarze, Reimund; Wagner, Gert G. - 2009
This paper provides an overview on the existing systems of natural hazards insurance in Europe, their structural characteristics and peculiarities. It also discusses the difficulties of an adaptation of these systems to climate change and a growing number of natural disasters. Using the case of...
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Property Natural Catastrophe Risk Analysis in an Era of Climate Change : Some Financial Services, Investment and Public Policy Implications
Calandro, Jr., Joseph; Hall, Graham; Zheng, Steve - 2021
Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance is, as of mid-2021, a hot topic that many firms are grappling with, given an increasing level of investor and consumer focus on the sustainability credentials of their businesses, and what they are doing to improve them. For example, major...
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Climate risk and beliefs in New York floodplains
Gibson, Matthew; Mullins, Jamie T. - 2020
Applying a difference-in-differences framework to a census of residential property transactions in New York City 2003-2017, we estimate the price effects of three flood risk signals: 1) the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act, which increased premiums; 2) Hurricane Sandy; and 3) new...
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Natural hazards insurance in Europe : tailored responses to climate change needed
Schwarze, Reimund; Wagner, Gert G. - 2009
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Public Insurance and Climate Change (Part One) : Past Trends in Weather-Related Insurance in New Zealand
Fleming, David; Noy, Ilan; Pástor-Paz, Jacob; Owen, Sally - 2019
Climate change appears to be increasing the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events, negatively affecting communities as well as posing long-term sustainability challenges to insurance (risk transfer) mechanisms. New Zealand’s public natural hazard insurer, the Earthquake Commission...
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The effect of disaster insurance on community resilience : a research agenda for local policy
French, Karina; Kousky, Carolyn - In: Climate policy 23 (2023) 5, pp. 662-670
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Natural Disasters and Economic Policy for the Pacific Rim
Noy, Ilan - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2012
We survey the history of natural disasters in the Pacific Rim, and the region's vulnerabilities. We also discuss the extent of our knowledge about the short- and long-term economic impacts of these disasters, and prevention, mitigation and post-disaster policies that may be implemented.
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Natural Disasters and the Economy — A Survey
Cavallo, Eduardo; Noy, Ilan - In: International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics 5 (2011) 1, pp. 63-102
This paper surveys the state of the economic literature examining the aggregate impacts of natural disasters. The paper reviews the main disaster data sources available, discusses the determinants of the direct effects of disasters, and distinguishes between short- and long-run indirect effects....
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