Natural Hazards Insurance for Residential Properties and Cultural Heritage: Which Role in the Coming Years?
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Hazards and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 4117
Special Issue Editors
Interests: natural hazards; historical seismicity; historical floods; historical landslides; disaster response; natural hazard insurance; natural hazards and cultural heritage; heritage science; bibliometrics
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Interests: hydroclimatology; seasonal forecasting; disaster/crisis informatics; big data; water resources management
Interests: environmental law and economics; climate change economic remedies; biodiversity economics; insurance market regulation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Natural hazards (NHs) such as earthquakes, floods, droughts, and landslides threaten human society and its economic system causing long-lasting financial and non-financial impacts. This statement is applicable especially considering the dramatic increase in number and severity of NH events around the world due to the growing amount of people living in disaster-prone areas, real estate vulnerability, ineffectiveness of flood mitigation actions, and climate change.
The cost of damage associated with catastrophe risks (cat-risks) poses serious challenges to governments in terms of policy choice. However, the insurance sector can play a relevant role in different directions by supplying policies covering claims of third parties who allege injury or property damage and by designing financial products aiming to motivate technological responses to risks. Insurers can encourage indirect effects by proactively stimulating prevention behavior in their customers.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to form a discussion on the role that hazard insurance can play in the "protection" of residential properties and cultural heritage in the near future. Therefore, we invite you to contribute to this Issue by submitting wide-ranging reviews, novel case studies, or research articles. Examples of contents include but are not limited to:
-public and private insurance against natural hazards;
-insurance as a driving force of risk mitigation;
-estimation of insurance premiums and its uncertainty;
-loss assessment models;
-risk awareness, insurance acceptance, and willingness to pay;
-individual behavior role in loss mitigation;
-lessons learned from disaster occurrences;
-insurance for cultural heritage;
-big data and NH insurance; and
-smart insurance contracts (e.g., blockchain technology)
Dr. Fabrizio Terenzio Gizzi
Dr. Jonghun Kam
Prof. Donatella Porrini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Insurance
- natural hazards
- catastrophe risks
- risk mitigation
- residential properties
- cultural heritage
- big data
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