disaster risk resilience (DRR). This paper tries to emphasise the importance of DRR in dealing with natural catastrophesby … reinsurance mechanisms used in other countries for financing these catastrophes. It underlines a concept that resilience can be … infrastructure network and assets -existing and planned -and ignoring the 'resilience' aspect in infrastructure management and …

earthquake protection in Quebec and British Columbia is influenced by the default option and the structure of the insurance plan …. Homeowners in both provinces were given the opportunity to purchase protection against earthquake losses when presented with one … pool rather than the current private insurance plan increases the likelihood of purchasing earthquake protection by 151 …