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When indemnity insurance fails: Parametric coverage under binding budget and risk constraints
Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.Abstract In high‐risk environments, traditional indemnity insurance is often unaffordable or ineffective, despite its well‐known optimality under expected utility. We compare excess‐of‐loss indemnity insurance with parametric insurance within a common mean‐variance framework, allowing for fixed costs, heterogeneous premium loadings, and binding budget ...
Benjamin Avanzi +2 more
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, 2003 Title devised by cataloguer from accompanying documentation.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Part of the collection: Canberra bushfires, 18 January to 14 February 2003.; Mode of access: Internet via World Wide ...
Miller, Tony.
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General Pre-registration: Australian Bushfires and USA Wildfires
, 2022 This is a general pre-registration of the exclusions and scale creation approach and methods for a broader project examining reactions to the 2020 Australian Bushfires and 2020 US Wildfires.
Emma F Thomas, Morgana Lizzio-Wilson
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Coerced Volunteering: Provision of Frontline Social Services During Emergencies
Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The study examines social service provision during emergencies, with the October 2023 war in Israel as a case study. Building on literature devoted to coping strategies adopted by frontline social service providers, which primarily addresses routine contexts, our research explores their adaptation during crises.
Ofri Shalev Greenman, Einat Lavee
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Tree Species Vulnerability to Fire Increases at Dry Range Edge
Global Change Biology Communications, Volume 1, Issue 4, December 2026.Following severe drought and fire, some tree species experience increased tree mortality, topkill (death of above‐ground biomass) and lower rates of seedling recruitment at the dry edge of their ranges, while other species maintain resilience, exhibiting low rates of mortality and topkill and high rates of recruitment across their ranges.
Eli R. Bendall +8 more
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Bushfires : preparation, resilience and recovery\ud
, 2008 The emphasis in this chapter is on bushfires as a representative of hazards/disasters affecting communities/regions due to the total loss category of major bushfire events in the past decade (Blue Mountains 2001 ; Canberra 2003 ; lesser known regions in ...
Gow, Kathryn M., Pritchard, Francine
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Austral Entomology, Volume 65, Issue 4, November 2026.ABSTRACT The Mesostoinae are a poorly understood braconid subfamily with unresolved morphological challenges and a complex taxonomic history. This study provides insight into the biodiversity of this subfamily on Kangaroo Island (KI), South Australia.
Shannon P. Tetley +3 more
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Fire and Rescue Service Preparedness for Natural Hazards
Fire and Materials, Volume 50, Issue 6, Page 627-636, October 2026.ABSTRACT Natural hazards driven by extreme weather events are expected to continue to pose a significant risk to citizens, property and the environment. Based on a series of national and international interviews with the Fire and Rescue Service (FRS), this paper presents an analysis of present practices within the FRS and FRS willingness to employ a ...
Johan Björck, Margaret McNamee
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Virtual tools, real fires: how holograms and other tech could help outsmart bushfires
, 2019 Australia continues to experience unprecedented destruction from bushfires. Now is the time to harness our technological tools, and find innovative ways to help alleviate the problem, and also prevent future disaster.Full ...
Tuffley, David
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The role of post-disaster institutions in recovery and resilience: a comparative study of three recent disasters – Victorian Bushfires (2009), Queensland Floods (2010-11), and Canterbury Earthquakes (2010-12) [PDF]
, 2012 This paper addresses the fourth area of disaster management: recovery and resilience. Disasters are focusing events that can drive immediate policy change.
James Smart
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