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The Complementary Roles of Mitigation and Insurance in Managing Catastrophic Risks [PDF]

This paper examines the impact that specific risk mitigation measures (RMMs) could have on reducing losses from hurricanes and earthquakes as well as improving the solvency position of insurers who provide coverage against these hazards. We first explore
Paul Kleindorfer, Howard Kunreuther
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Global catastrophic risks survey

At the Global Catastrophic Risk Conference in Oxford (17‐20 July, 2008) an informal survey was circulated among participants, asking them to make their best guess at the chance that there will be disasters of different types before 2100. This report summarizes the main results.
Sandberg, A, Bostrom, N
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Valuing life: experimental evidence using sensitivity to rare events [PDF]

Global environmental phenomena like climate change, major extinction events or flutype pandemics can have catastrophic consequences. By properly assessing the outcomes involved - especially those concerning human life - economic theory of choice under ...
Graciela Chichilnisky, Olivier Chanel
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Climate Change and Risk Management: Challenges for Insurance, Adaptation, and Loss Estimation [PDF]

Adapting to climate change will not only require responding to the physical effects of global warming, but will also require adapting the way we conceptualize, measure, and manage risks. Climate change is creating new risks, altering the risks we already
Cooke, Roger, Kousky, Carolyn
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Dealing with Major Technological Risks [PDF]

This article is concerned with the management of major hazards stemming from technology and entailing potentially dreadful consequences. It proposes a brief survey of the0501n difficulties and policy issues arising both in public and private decision ...
Carel Vachon, Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné
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Securitizing peanut production risk with catastrophe (CAT) bonds [PDF]

A catastrophe (CAT) bond is designed for peanut production as a means of transferring natural disaster risks from insurance purveyors to the global capital market.
Epperson, James E.
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Resilience to abrupt global catastrophic risks disrupting trade: Combining urban and near-urban agriculture in a quantified case study of a globally median-sized city. [PDF]

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Boyd M, Wilson N.
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Emerging and Converging Global Catastrophic Biological Risks [PDF]