Insurance & risk transfer

The report reviews agricultural risk management systems in Europe with a special focus on agricultural insurance. It analyses and compares the definitions of crisis and disaster eligible for public aid in EU member states with the Community guidelines for

Hundreds of pastoralists in northern Kenya will soon be better cushioned against the effects of recurrent drought thanks to a new index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) pilot programme in the upper eastern region of Marsabit...

The US National Flood Insurance Program’s (NFIP) helped make the city of Houston, Texas a safer place to live, reduced the economic impact of flood hazards and saved their citizens money on their flood policy premiums according to FEMA...

This book describes innovative findings of integrated river basin management with specific emphasis on flood risk reduction. It also presents the method and application of the participatory GIS and remote sensing for disaster risk assessment, which is one

Natural hazards and earth system sciences, 10, 97–104, 2010:

This peer-reviewed paper looks at whether weather-related disaster losses are really increasing as a result of climate change, by attempting to put windstorm Kyrill (18 January 2007) into an

The IBC reports that the insurance industry has long advocated to governments at all levels for adequate funding to renew municipal sewer and surface water infrastructure and commits to expanding its public advocacy efforts...

WWF global climate policy position paper:

This document reflects WWF’s policy recommendations for adaptation measures in a post-2012 UN climate regime. It highlights: (i) the importance of an ambitious, well-governed, proactive and fully-funded

IRIN reports on the tougher debates on climate change adaptation, taking place at the final week of the UN climate change talks in Copenhagen...