Insurance & risk transfer

'Caribbean governments are leading the way in pre-disaster planning by working to develop programmes and policies to mitigate natural disasters long before they happen,' writes Barbados, Deputy Prime Minister Mia Mottley...

FEMA's FloodSmart Campaign and NOOA have announced that they are again working together during 'Flood Safety Awareness Week' (March 15-19), to raise awareness of the dangers associated with flooding and steps to protect against damage...

Cara Mia DiMassa from the LA Times reports on earth scientist, Elizabeth Cochran's project to use personal computers to detect seismic movement...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is presenting preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) to communities and unincorporated areas in Fannin County, Texas to help identify known flood risks to be used for insurance and development decisions....

This journal provides an international platform for knowledge sharing in all areas related to flood risk. Its explicit aim is to disseminate ideas across the range of disciplines where flood related research is carried out and it provides content ranging

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...