Australia’s policies prevent the necessary action to not only address cities’ contribution to climate change, but also to protect cities from its impacts.
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Building houses better at withstanding the impacts of climate change is one way we can protect ourselves in the face of future catastrophic conditions.
Disaster victims in Australia can wait months or years for insurance payouts – or can’t afford the premiums at all. As climate change worsens, we need a radical rethink.
The less we are insured, the higher the premiums, the more the government has to help, and the less are insured. A model used overseas points to a way out.
Covid has led to delays in consumers receiving everything from furniture to groceries. This is how we might reshape supply chains after the pandemic.
Although insurance is important in natural disaster recovery, government and property owners also play an important role in protecting Canadians against the impact of catastrophic weather events.
With little public consultation and serious questions about how it might work, the proposed scheme is a policy gamble of unknown proportions.
Even if you’re well covered, your area may struggle long after a disaster if most locals don’t have enough home and/or contents insurance. Search our map by postcode or suburb name to check your area.
African livestock keepers need help: without proactive interventions, increasing temperatures will reduce meat and milk production.
NOAA’s 2021 high-tide flooding outlook shows where the risks are highest and growing. Some communities are seeing 20 or more days of flooding a year now.
With climate change making more than 30,000 coastal properties potentially uninsurable within the next 25 years, government-led solutions should be fast-tracked.
Federal weather scientists are pushing to make the US more ‘weather-ready,’ which could mean prepping for fires, flooding or storms depending on where you live. The common factor: thinking ahead.
Melbourne’s snap-lockdown proves festivals are still vulnerable. If the government doesn’t provide insurance, arts organisations may decide it’s not worth the risk.
One interviewee in our study described having compiled a database of more than 150 interactions with insurers or their representatives over the two months since they were caught up in a disaster.
Hospitals have a lot of room to reduce, reuse and recycle supplies – as many were forced to discover during the pandemic.
Even though Canadians and Americans living in the Pacific Northwest share the same earthquake risk, far more Canadians than American homeowners buy earthquake insurance. Why?
As more provinces legislate no-fault auto insurance, drivers should be told that the system places tight restrictions on their right to be heard in court and reduces benefits.
Instead of telling people to buy more of the right type of insurance, we should be asking how insurance can work better for people.
Cybersecurity risks are evolving rapidly. How can they be more effectively assessed and managed ?
How climate change and other human actions have combined to create conditions for explosive wildfires in California, Oregon and Washington state.
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Senior Lecturer in Human Geography and Planning, University of Tasmania
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Professor Emeritus of Risk Management and Insurance, Georgia State University
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Research Fellow, Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania
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Managing Director, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, Western University
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Professor, Business School, University of Sydney
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Senior Researcher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Southampton
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Adjunct Professor, Victoria University
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Professor of Law, Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University
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Chair in Insurance and Professor, Finance, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Managing Director of Risk Frontiers, Macquarie University
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Professor and ARC Future Fellow, Monash University
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Director, Living with Disability Research Centre, La Trobe University
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Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Principal Research Fellow, Research & Policy Centre, Brotherhood of St Laurence, and Honorary Principal Fellow, The University of Melbourne
