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When insurers retreat: The governance of wildfire disasters and how FAIR plans allocate climate risk

open access: yesRisk Management and Insurance Review, EarlyView.
Abstract As wildfire risk accelerates private insurer retreat, state‐governed FAIR Plans increasingly serve as the primary coverage available in hazard‐prone areas. This paper analyzes these residual markets as instruments of disaster governance, arguing that their design reflects distributive political choices regarding risk allocation.
Katarzyna Klasa
wiley   +1 more source

Does Antibiotic Choice for Prophylaxis Affect the Outcome of Wound Infections in Earthquake Victims? [PDF]

open access: yesInfect Dis Clin Microbiol
Aka N   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

War, Trauma and Diasporic Identity in Vyvyane Loh's Breaking the Tongue

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Japan's involvement in the Second World War offers provocative narrative material for authors who write about the cultural politics of race under wartime conditions, such as the internment experience of Japanese Americans in the United States and the mass killings of Chinese (Operation Sook Ching), suspected of anti‐Japanese sentiments in ...
Walter S. H. Lim
wiley   +1 more source

Recognizing Our Role in Reframing Disaster and Emergency Management Terminology to Enhance Human Agency and Responsibility

open access: yesPerspectives of Earth and Space Scientists, Volume 7, Issue 1, December 2026.
Abstract This work addresses the critical issue of science literacy and science communication for scientists, researchers, officials, organizations, and the general public. Effective communication and trust between these groups are essential, particularly as the severity and scope of disasters continue to increase.
J. M. Trivedi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Converging Vocabulary, Diverging Attribution: Resilience Concepts and the Acting Subject in the National Disaster Risk Management Strategies of 25 EU Member States

open access: yesJournal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Volume 34, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT European disaster risk management has converged on a shared resilience vocabulary faster than on a shared account of who is expected to produce resilience. This article codes 2218 passages from 38 strategic documents in 25 EU member states along two dimensions: resilience type (engineering, ecological, transformative) and governance ...
Hüseyin Ugur Sagkal
wiley   +1 more source

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