Privatizing climate adaptation: How insurance weakens solidaristic and collective disaster recovery

CH Lucas, KI Booth - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
As losses from extreme weather events grow, many governments are looking to privatize the
financing and incentivization of climate adaptation through insurance markets. In a pure …

Paradoxes of financial schemes for resilient flood recovery of households

L Slavíková, T Hartmann… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Flood resilience (resilient flood risk management), which has been repeatedly demanded,
can be achieved through the phases of the risk management cycle. There is a vast body of …

Australia in 2030: what is our path to health for all?

K Backholer, F Baum, SM Finlay, S Friel… - Medical Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Chapter 1: How Australia improved health equity through action on the social
determinants of health Do not think that the social determinants of health equity are old hat …

The economic impacts of direct natural disaster exposure

M Johar, DW Johnston, MA Shields, P Siminski… - Journal of Economic …, 2022 - Elsevier
We estimate the economic impacts of having your home damaged or destroyed by a natural
disaster. Regressions with individual, area and time fixed-effects, indicate that experiencing …

An unmitigated disaster: Shifting from response and recovery to mitigation for an insurable future

E de Vet, C Eriksen, K Booth, S French - International Journal of Disaster …, 2019 - Springer
Australian households are increasingly vulnerable to natural hazard-related disasters. To
manage disaster risk, government commissioned inquiries have called for greater …

Financial recovery schemes in Austria: How planned relocation is used as an answer to future flood events

T Thaler, S Fuchs - Financial Schemes for Resilient Flood …, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
Damages due to extreme hydro-metrological events request for additional efforts to enhance
the implementation of property level flood risk adaptation (PLFRA) measures. Although a …

Untangling insurance, rebuilding, and wellbeing in bushfire recovery

C Eriksen, E de Vet - Geographical Research, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Home and contents insurance is framed as key to Australia's national strategy for disaster
resilience. Despite the perceived importance of financial indemnity, ambiguity characterises …

When insurance and goodwill are not enough: Bushfire Attack Level (BAL) ratings, risk calculations and disaster resilience in Australia

E de Vet, C Eriksen - Australian Geographer, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Home and contents insurance is integral to household and community resilience against
disasters. Yet many households are underinsured. While causes for underinsurance have …

Geographies of trust: Socio-spatial variegations of trust in insurance

B Tranter, K Booth - Geoforum, 2019 - Elsevier
Trust is commonly understood as a mechanism that acts to improve transaction efficiency, or
as a structural characteristic of organizations. It is a'good'thing that can be built and …

[HTML][HTML] Natural hazard insurance outcomes at national, regional and local scales: A comparison between Sweden and Portugal

M Leal, P Hudson, S Mobini, J Sörensen… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study addresses the role of natural hazard insurance in two European countries with
different insurance markets and socioeconomic conditions: Sweden and Portugal. The …