Search results: Swenja Surminski
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The Role of Insurance in Reducing Direct Risk – The Case of Flood Insurance
…design flood insurance and offers some pointers for future research. Swenja Surminski (2014), “The Role of Insurance in Reducing… read more »
Building effective and sustainable risk transfer initiatives in low- and middle-income economies: what can we learn from existing insurance schemes?
…database sheds some light on this, but further work is required. More information Download video presentation (.wmv or .mp4) Swenja… read more »
Open questions about how to address ‘loss and damage’ from climate change in the most vulnerable countries: a response to the Cancún Adaptation Framework
…with a view to informing recommendations by the UNFCCC Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) to COP18. Nicola Ranger, Swenja Surminski… read more »
Flood Re: a missed opportunity for sustainable flood risk management?
…a flood risk area. But that alone does not solve the problem, writes Swenja Surminski. These efforts should be accompanied by improvements… read more »
Letters from Sendai – No 5: New disaster risk reduction framework agreed
…Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) has just concluded in Sendai, Japan. Swenja Surminski reports on the final agreement. Just before midnight… read more »
Do flood insurance schemes in developing countries provide incentives to reduce physical risks?
…zard. Therefore a closer linkage between risk transfer and risk reduction could make this a more sustainable and robust tool. Swenja… read more »
An Independent National Adaptation Programme for England
…af). Sam Fankhauser, Nicola Ranger, Jonathan Colmer, Susannah Fisher, Swenja Surminski, David Stainforth and Andrew Williamson More… read more »
The concept of loss and damage of climate change – a new challenge for climate decision-making? A climate science perspective
Swenja Surminski & Ana Lopez, 2014. This paper reviews the implications of Loss and Damage L&D for decision-making with a special… read more »
Reflection on the current debate on how to link flood insurance and disaster risk reduction in the European Union
Swenja Surminski, Jeroen Aerts, Wouter Botzen, Paul Hudson, Jaroslav Mysiak and Carlos Dionisio Pérez-Blanco read more »
New flood insurance scheme could be unsustainable because it overlooks climate change
…e in areas of flood risk’, which was launched in June 2013, Dr Swenja Surminski and co-authors warn that “flood risk is expected to… read more »
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