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Displaying 15 of about 30 resultsBushfires, floods, and storms are a part of the Australian experience. In recent years they have become more common and the impacts, more intense. Moreover, in the future, climate change will mean that extreme events will become more frequent and intense. This presents a challenge to communities that are exposed to natural hazards.
Insurance is key for…
Henry Ergas stresses that despite the rising cost of the recent flood damage, there is still a need to rebuild on a basis that manages future risks. "There has been too much development, and too little investment in risk reduction, in disaster-prone areas" he writes, in an opinion piece for the Australian.
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Sidney – The World Bank today announced that Tonga will be the first country to benefit from a payout under the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Pilot and will receive an immediate payment of US $1.27 million towards recovery from Cyclone Ian.
The Category 5 Cyclone, which swept across Tonga’s Ha’apai island group on January 11th and…
by Ksenia Stepanova
The National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) of Nepal has concluded a two-week long study trip to New Zealand, where it met with a host of organisations including Wellington City Council, GNS Science, Massey and Canterbury Universities and Regenerate Christchurch. The topics under discussion revolved around natural disaster reco…
This book was produced to mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), a United Nations initiative to reduce the negative effects of natural disasters.
This volume communicates solutions to the problems associated with natural disasters, stimulating discussion and improvements in methods of protecting people and prop…
This report tallies the successes and failures of the recovery effort after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand, with the aim of improving future preparedness and recovery initiatives. It provides a number of policy recommendations for disaster preparedness and post-disaster response.
Key recommendations include the need for the government…
Whanganui locals are coming to grips with the devastation caused by the city's biggest ever floods, reports Radio New Zealand.
Hone Tamehima said repairing sacred Maori art would not come cheap when the taonga was priceless. "Insurance-wise, we couldn't even get an evaluation on the carvings, with [them] being original. No insurance company wanted to g…
Global reinsurance giant Swiss Re has urged the country's governments to cover the rising damages bill using insurance instruments such as 'catastrophe bonds' rather than one-off disaster levies, reports Reuters.
"We would like to see some form of insurance from government rather than a levy after the event," said Mark Senkevics, head of Swiss Re in Au…
• Much of the world is still vastly underinsured against earthquake risk, study finds
• Underinsurance often due to low risk awareness in earthquake-prone areas
• Earthquake models should consider secondary-loss factors more comprehensively
According to Swiss Re’s latest expertise publication “Lessons from recent major earthquakes”, several big earthq…
This conference will specially focus on the advances made in the earthquake engineering. Eminent speakers will be invited to talk about the various aspects of engineering related with the earthquake. The participants will also get to learn about the updates regarding earthquake engineering. Exposure of various opportunities will be done in the conferenc…
An official document formally adopted by UN Member States as the outcome of the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States, in which countries recognize the need to support and invest in these nations so they can achieve sustainable development.
The paragraphs 51 and 52 recognize the importance of disaster risk reduction and affir…
Asian Disaster Management News, Volume 22 (2015):
This edition of Asian Disaster Management News focuses on disaster recovery: the governance, economics, and social impacts. It includes features on i) recovery planning, ii) the needs of survivors in post-disaster needs assessments, iii) defining the post-disaster financial requirements for recovery, iv…
This paper reviews findings from a research project examining the role insurance cover (or the lack thereof) plays in disaster recovery. It considers the implications of insurance within a shared-responsibility model for emergency management and disaster mitigation policy and practice. A key finding shows how insufficient understanding of Bushfire Attac…
This report considers the role of insurance in restoring local economic activity and reducing the long-term impact of natural disasters in Australia. The analysis looks at the experience of three recent natural disasters: Cyclone Debbie, Tathra bushfires and Hobart’s floods. All three disasters had a devastating effect on local communities and economic…
After almost three decades of steady economic growth, Australia has been hit by a sudden series of exogenous shocks that tested our national resilience.
The 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires, COVID-19 pandemic and forecast recession each present wicked policy challenges. They are riddled with complexity and conflicting aims and no clear stopping point.
T…