Oikos, EarlyView.Predicting the fate of small populations is essential in ecology, epidemiology and conservation biology. Small populations can go extinct quickly or can develop into large established populations. These can still go extinct through demographic stochasticity, especially when declines in mean population size or large size fluctuations drive them into an ...
Souleyman Bakker +3 more
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Climate Change and Insurance: Embracing Resilience for Private Market Survival
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Private insurance is a major mechanism for managing natural disaster risk in the U.S. Public programs cannot generate sufficient capital to provide adequate protection to homes and businesses. Our literature review indicates that disaster impacts are increasing because of climate change and continuing development in high‐risk areas, which is ...
John A. Roper +2 more
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Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract It is not uncommon that original aspirations of social policy go astray during implementation. Issues that are the focus of social policy are often tied to various competing social, political, and value positions, making them unfailingly ‘wicked’ and rendering the design and implementation of solutions inherently challenging.
Eloise Hummell +3 more
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Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Department of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics [PDF]
, 2004 openalex +2 more sources
The Old Regime (of Mutualisation) and the Revolution (of Big Data)
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In his classic work L'ancien régime et la révolution, Alexis de Tocqueville proposes a reinterpretation of the French Revolution: behind the spectacular ruptures associated with the event, profound continuities are at play. Beyond the specific case of the French Revolution, Tocqueville calls for vigilance in mobilizing the notion of revolution
Pierre Francois
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The Arctan-X Family of Distributions: Properties, Simulation, and Applications to Actuarial Sciences [PDF]
, 2021 Ibrahim Alkhairy +3 more
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That's Not Fair! Navigating the Duality of Fairness in Insurance
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Insurance serves as a social good, providing financial protection against disasters whilst operating within a profit‐driven market. This dual role highlights the complex intersection of social and commercial interests, raising a fairness puzzle often portrayed as a trade‐off between solidarity and actuarial fairness.
Konstantinos Chalkias +3 more
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Comonotonic Approximations for the Sum of Log Unified Skew Normal Random Variables: Application in Finance and Actuarial Science [PDF]
, 2021 Arjun K. Gupta, Mohammad A. Azizb
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Does Proactivity Affect Insurance Solidarity and Individual Responsibility?
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past 20 years, the insurance industry has been experimenting with technological innovations that deeply affect its business model and social function. This article explores the use of digital technologies to monitor policyholders' behaviour and personalise their insurance coverage.
Alberto Cevolini, Elena Esposito
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On composite length-biased exponential-Pareto distribution: Properties, simulation, and application in actuarial science [PDF]
, 2023 Moulouk Halima Benchettah +2 more
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