Book: Climate Change and Insurance: Disaster Risk Financing in Developing Countries
Climate modify brings most a newborn ordered of field scheme risks arising from dynamical defy patterns, extremity defy events and ascension seafaring levels. Those most at venture are nonindustrial countries, which hit been direction the field brunt of disaster-related losses, despite goodish post-disaster helper aid. One adjustment resolution that is apace gaining the hold of countries and planetary donors is a venture designate to the orbicular reinsurance and top markets.
This volume, a primary supply of Climate Policy journal, explores the persona that insurance-based mechanisms crapper endeavor in serving nonindustrial countries to educate for status change. It offers a unequalled and broad appearance on the possibleness persona of shelter solutions in orbicular adjustment to status change.
The book:
• Examines the persona of shelter in reaction danger and mitigating the impacts of status change, specially in nonindustrial countries
• Contributions from directive shelter and status experts
• Sets discover the explanation and organisation of a status ‘insurance’ grouping involving the clannish sector, planetary donors and governments
Edited by metropolis Gurenko, Lead Insurance Specialist at the Insurance Practice of the World Bank. His most past projects allow venture assessments and the organisation of hardship venture designate solutions for Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Iran, the sea islands and India. He holds a PhD from river University and professed designations of Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) and Associate in Reinsurance (ARe).
Michael Grubb is Editor-in-Chief of Climate Policy, Chief Economist at The Carbon Trust (UK), Senior Research Associate of the Faculty of Economics at University of Cambridge, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London.
Contents
Foreword • Introduction • Scientific and Economic Rationales for Innovative Climate Insurance Solutions • Insurance for Assisting Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries: A Proposed Strategy • Insuring the Uninsurable: Design Options for a Climate Change Funding Mechanism • Role of the Private Market in Catastrophe Insurance • The Amerindic Insurance Industry and Climate Change: Exposure, Opportunities and Strategies Ahead • Can Insurance Deal with Negative Effects Arising from Climate Policy Measures? • Conclusions and Recommendations
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Publication fellow July 2007; 88 Pages
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ISBN 1844074838 / 9781844074839
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