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This handbook outlines an approach to proactively manage the risks of geohazards on roads, road users, and the people living near and affected by road. This handbook is structured to support road geohazard risk management sequentially and systematically: Part I, Framework for Road Geohazard Risk...
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This paper discusses the recent changes in the market for catastrophe risk. These risks have traditionally been distributed through the insurance and reinsurance systems. However, because insurance companies tend to share relatively small amounts of their cat exposures and because insurance...
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This paper examines households' self-insurance in financial markets when a rare personal disaster, such as disability … or long-term unemployment, may occur during working years. Personal disaster risk alters lifetime ex-ante investment … choices, even if most workers will not experience a disaster. Uncertainty about the size of human capital losses, which …
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Drought disaster is one of the meteorological disasters that hinders agricultural development, and risk assessment of … this disaster can reduce losses. Although there are many kinds of risk assessment methods, most of them are static. For … static risk assessment model, which can get the year-by-year drought disaster information. Secondly, based on the static risk …
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for appraising sovereign disaster risk financing and insurance instruments and strategy, and puts forward a model and a … process for improving decision making on the linked disaster risk management strategy and sovereign disaster risk financing … disaster risk financing decision making and describes the ex ante and ex post financing instruments available for responding to …
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