Insurance & risk transfer

A digest of peer-reviewed papers that address critical issues, including hazard characterisation, forecasting and modelling that, together, seek to reduce vulnerability and exposure and diminish disaster risk. The main topics addressed are: geological

Presenting seven guiding principles, this book tackles the difficult questions about what can be done to attain built-in resilience.

With contributions from many renowned experts and upcoming researchers in the fields concerned, it comprehensively

This report identifies key challenges and opportunities for progress in fields of disaster risk reduction based on the discussions held at the Forum. It is structured around the six working themes of the Forum, which include the emerging challenges of

Climate and Society publication series, no.2:

The publication critically examines 17 case studies of index insurance implementation, and the challenges and opportunities facing them if they are to contribute to development at meaningful scales.  It

World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction, Technical Committee Session C:

In the first part of this document, four authors give presentations on the characteristics of disasters in metropolitan areas; the relation between environmental degradation

Un point de vu, publié dans le journal L'Humanité, questionnant le rôle de l'assurance dans la réduction des risques liés aux catastrophes et comme outil d’adaptation au monde de demain...

'Around 30 percent of the losses from catastrophes in developed countries are covered by insurers, while the percentage is lower than 5 percent in China,' said Wei Yingning, vice-chairman of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission...

Disaster risk reduction experts welcome an insurance scheme proposed by Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency and call for its accessibility to low-income Nigerians...