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  • Microsoft Word - ir03029.doc
    ... 2.1 Standard Discounting First of all, let us consider the simplest situation. Assume that an extreme event, such as a flood or an earthquake, may occur in time intervals ,...1,0=t with ... 100-year flood. In fact, p/1 is the expected “waiting” time until the event occurs although the event, for example a 100- year flood, may occur in two weeks or in ... ...
    http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Publications/Documents/IR-03-029.pdf
  • Microsoft Word - RAVPLAN.doc
    1 Research Plan 2006–2010 Risk and Vulnerability Program Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer Abstract The long-term aim of the IIASA Program on Risk and Vulnerability (RAV) is to conduct conceptual and applied analyses that contribute to decreasing the risk and vulnerability of societies and ecosystems, and promoting their adaptation and resilience, to stresses imposed or aggravated by global change phenomena. The research will be relevant mainly, but not ...
    http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/RAV/ravresearchplan.pdf
  • Climate Insurance as part of a Post-Kyoto Adaptation Strategy
    ... but shares the insurer’s or government’s losses by sacrificing interest or principal following the event. Another instrument is contingent credit, which requires a pre-event fee to secure a pre- defined post-event annuity. Risk pooling and transfer can be combined. For example, the Caribbean states have ...
    http://www.germanwatch.org/klima/insur08.pdf
  • Disasters and Development

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