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Managing extreme climate change risks through insurance
"In recent years, the damage caused by natural disasters has increased worldwide; this trend will only continue with the impact of climate change. Despite this, the role for the most common mechanism for managing risk - insurance - has received little attention. This book considers the contribu...
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| বিন্যাস: | Printed Book |
| ভাষা: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
c2013. 2015 paperback
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| অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: | http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/33276/cover/9781107033276.jpg |
সূচিপত্রের সারণি:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: climate change and natural disaster risk management; 2. Climate change impacts on the insurance sector; 3. Climate change and future costs of natural disasters; 4. Climate change adaptation through insurance against flooding; 5. Dealing with uncertainty in flood risk management; 6. Damage mitigation measures at the household level and climate change adaptation; 7. Insurance incentives for homeowners to invest in adaptation; 8. Bounded rationality and demand for flood insurance; 9. Individual perceptions of flood risk; 10. WTP for insurance against low-probability flood risks; 11. Market shares of insurance against flood risk under different climate change scenarios ; 12. Conclusions.