This Article explores the role of insurance as a substitute for direct regulation of risks posed
by severe weather. In pricing the risk of human activity along the predicted path of storms …

Following a major disaster, a field operations manager needs to deploy relief activities within
the affected region. State-of-the-art humanitarian logistics models have been developed …

The development of catastrophe models in recent years allows for assessment of the flood
hazard much more effectively than when the federally run National Flood Insurance Program …

Extreme winds are by far the largest contributor to Norway's insurance claims related to
natural hazards. The predictive skills of four different damage functions are assessed for …

This article asserts that the market for property insurance, particularly homeowners
insurance, in the State of Florida is experiencing failures, and that a combination of market …

Florida has distinctively different regions, in terms of population density and hurricane risk.
The objective of the article is to understand the characteristics of hurricane loss in different …

Even though it is in society's interest to mitigate hazard damage, investments in hazard
resilience are often not made, in part due to uncertainty around the potential costs and their …

The fundamental shift in rating methodology from historical loss costs to catastrophe
modeling for windstorm coverage calls into question the accuracy of rates developed using …

Extreme winds are by far the largest contributor to Norway's insurance claims related to
natural hazards. The predictive skills of four different damage functions are assessed for …

This report summarizes current research on how climate change is likely to influence future
losses from extreme weather events. We consider six types of weather-related extreme …