All pages with keywords: flood insurance

Strengthening the UK’s flood insurance partnership in the face of rising risks: what role for property developers?

Florence Crick and Swenja Surminski outline ways in which property developers could help reduce flood insurance premiums. read more »

Strengthening insurance partnerships in the face of climate change – insights from an agent-based model of flood insurance in the UK

This paper investigates how partnerships can incentivise flood risk reduction by focusing on the UK public-private partnership on flood insurance. read more »

Flood Re: a missed opportunity for sustainable flood risk management?

The government and the insurance industry have recently launched Flood Re, a scheme that aims to make home insurance affordable to those living in a flood risk area. But that alone does not solve the problem, writes Swenja Surminski. read more »

Assessing surface water flood risk and management strategies under future climate change: an agent-based model approach

Flooding is the costliest natural disaster worldwide. In the UK flooding is listed as a major risk on the National Risk Register with surface water flooding the most likely cause … read more »

Flood insurance in England – An assessment of the current and newly proposed insurance scheme in the context of rising flood risk

By applying our analytical framework we find an absence of formal incentive mechanisms for risk reduction in the existing and proposed Flood Re scheme. We identify the barriers for applying insurance to risk reduction and point to some possible modifications in the Flood Re proposal to deliver a greater link between risk transfer and risk reduction. read more »

Reflection on the current debate on how to link flood insurance and disaster risk reduction in the European Union

Reflection on the current debate on how to link flood insurance and disaster risk reduction in the European Union read more »

Flood risk and climate change implications for MSPs

Managing flood risk: Why flood insurance needs to send the right signals

Anticipatory action and preparedness is much more economic than providing disaster aid. However, there have recently been many missed opportunities to put sensible long-term risk management in response to climate … read more »

Flood insurance in England – an assessment of the current and newly proposed insurance scheme in the context of rising flood risk

Flooding is the largest natural disaster risk in England and it is expected to rise even further as we experience a changing climate and continue putting … read more »

Flood insurance schemes and climate adaptation in developing countries

Risk transfer, including insurance, is widely recognized as a tool for increasing financial resilience to severe weather events such as floods. The application of this mechanism varies widely across … read more »