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Managing extreme climate 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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: climate change and natural disaster risk management
- Climate change impacts on the insurance sector
- Climate change and future costs of natural disasters
- Climate change adaptation through insurance against flooding
- Dealing with uncertainty in flood risk management
- Damage mitigation measures at the household level and climate change adaptation
- Insurance incentives for homeowners to invest in adaptation
- Bounded rationality and demand for flood insurance
- Individual perceptions of flood risk
- WTP for insurance against low-probability flood risks
- Market shares of insurance against flood risk under climate change
- Conclusions.