At war with the weather : managing large-scale risks in a new era of catastrophes
By: KUNREUTHER, Howard C
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Contributor(s): MICHEL-KERJAN, Erwann O | DOHERTY, Neil A | GRACE, Martin F | KLEIN, Robert W | PAULY, Mark V.
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BookPublisher: Massachusetts : MIT, 2009Description: 416 p.ISBN: 9780262012829.Subject(s): Gerenciamento de Crise | Risco | Desastre | Segurança Pública | Seguro | Análise Comparativa | Tomada de Decisão | Mercado | Competitividade | Inovação | Estados Unidos| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Livro Geral | Biblioteca Graciliano Ramos | Livro Geral | 2.15K9656w (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available | 10013279 |
I. Cause for concern 1. A new era of catastrophes 2. Catastrophe risk and the regulation of property insurance: a comparative analysis across states 3. A market analysis of property insurance against hurricane risk 4. Come rain or shine: flood risk financing through public insurance II. Understanding the demand and supply of disaster insurance 5. Homeowners' decision making for purchasing insurance coverage 6. Private insurers' decision making for supplying coverage 7. Private reinsurers' decision making for supplying coverage 8. Innovative insurance-linked securities for financing extreme events 9. A framework for linking supply and demand of disaster insurance 10. A multistate empirical analysis of homeowners' insurance III. Protecting homeowners against natural disasters 11. Impact of insurance status on economic welfare of homeowners in Hazard-Prone areas: the affordability challenge 12. Enhancing the implementation of risk reduction measures 13. Policy analysis of alternative programs: comparing the status quo with a true competitive insurance market IV. Creating innovative solutions 14. Proposed innovations for dealing with catastrophic risks 15. Winning the war against the weather and other extreme events
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