Public-private partnerships for adaptation and disaster risk management (ENHANCE project)

The Institute is collaborating with a range of stakeholders on the EU FP7 funded ENHANCE Project (Enhancing riskmanagement partnerships for catastrophic natural disasters in Europe).

The project is developing and analysing new ways to enhance society’s resilience to catastrophic natural disasters. It will provide new scenarios and information on disaster risk and contribute to the development of new multi-sector partnerships to reduce or redistribute risk.

Swenja Surminski, Senior Research Fellow, is leading the private sector and insurance component of the project, collaborating with project partners, including businesses, on the sections about economic instruments and on public and private partnerships.

As part of this work Swenja is leading a UK case study that assesses multi-sector partnerships in London. This work is in collaboration with Professor Jim Hall at Oxford University and combines qualitative as well as quantitative assessments. The two partnerships under investigation are the UK Flood Insurance Partnership and the London Climate Change Partnership.

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 Publications

Surminski, S., and Eldridge, J., 2014. Flood insurance in England – an assessment of the current and newly proposed insurance scheme in the context of rising flood risk. Working paper. London: Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mechler, R., Laurens, M., Bouwer, Linnerooth-Bayer, J., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Aerts, J., Surminski, S., Williges, K., 2014. Managing unnatural disaster risk from climate extremes. Nature Climate Change, 4, pp.235–237. External link to paper

Surminski, S., Crick, F., Eldridge, J. and Ward, R., 2013. Securing the future availability and affordability of home insurance in areas of flood risk. Policy paper. London: Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Surminski, S., and Crick, F., 2013. Response to European Commission’s green paper on the insurance of natural and man-made disasters. Policy paper. London: Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Surminski, S., and Oramas-Dorta, D., in press. Flood insurance schemes and climate adaptation in developing countries. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. External link to article