W. J. Wouter Botzen

Managing Extreme Climate Change Risks through Insurance

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Produktbeschreibung

An examination of how insurance arrangements can contribute to societies' management of the risks of natural disasters in a changing climate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 454
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 653g
• ISBN-13: 9781316600887
• ISBN-10: 1316600882
• Artikelnr.: 44124385

Autorenporträt

W. J. Wouter Botzen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Economics at the Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: climate change and natural disaster risk management
2. Climate change impacts on the insurance sector
3. Climate change and future costs of natural disasters
4. Climate change adaptation through insurance against flooding
5. Dealing with uncertainty in flood risk management
6. Damage mitigation measures at the household level and climate change adaptation
7. Insurance incentives for homeowners to invest in adaptation
8. Bounded rationality and demand for flood insurance
9. Individual perceptions of flood risk
10. WTP for insurance against low-probability flood risks
11. Market shares of insurance against flood risk under climate change
12. Conclusions.