Cloudburst catastrophe modelling: Case study – Jönköping municipality, Sweden 

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Karagiorgos ◽  
Sven Halldin ◽  
Jan Haas ◽  
Daniel Knos ◽  
Barbara Blumenthal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Insurance Industry ◽  
Claim Data ◽  
The Public ◽  
Catastrophe Model ◽  
Modelling Framework ◽  
Catastrophe Modelling ◽  
Insurance Claim Data ◽  
Loss Modelling

<p>In Europe, flash floods are one of the most significant natural hazards, causing serious risk to life and destruction of buildings and infrastructure. The intense rain causing those floods has a few different names, however, with very similar meaning. The term chosen in this study, ‘cloudburst’, was introduced by Woolley (1946) as “…a torrential downpour of rain which by its spottiness and relatively high intensity suggests the bursting and discharge of the whole cloud at once”. While these events play an important role in the ongoing flood risk management discussion, they are under-represented among flood models.</p><p>The main aim of this study is to demonstrate an approach by showing how methods and techniques can be integrated together to construct a catastrophe model for flash flooding of Jönköping municipality in Sweden. The model is developed in the framework of the ‘Oasis Loss Modelling Framework’ platform, jointly with end-users from the public sector and the insurance industry. Calibration and validation of the model were conducted by comparisons against three historical cloudburst events and corresponding insurance-claim data.</p><p>The analysis has shown that it is possible to get acceptable results from a cloudburst catastrophe model using only rainfall data, and not surface-water level as driving variable. The approach presented opens up for such loss modelling in places where complex hydraulic modelling cannot be done because of lacking data or skill of responsible staff. The Swedish case study indicates that the framework presented can be considered as an important decision making tool, by establishing an area for collaboration between academia; insurance businesses; and local authorities, to reduce long-term disaster risk in Sweden.</p><p> </p><p>Woolley, Ralf R., "Cloudburst Floods in Utah 1850-1938" (1946). Elusive Documents. Paper 55.</p>

Pluvial flood catastrophe modelling: a trans-disciplinary approach.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Karagiorgos ◽  
Daniel Knos ◽  
Jan Haas ◽  
Sven Halldin ◽  
Barbara Blumenthal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Insurance Industry ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Effective Prevention ◽  
The Public ◽  
Modelling Framework ◽  
Catastrophe Modelling ◽  
The Impact

<p>Pluvial floods are one of the most significant natural hazards in Europe causing severe damage to urban areas. Following the projected increase in extreme precipitation and the ongoing urbanization, these events play an important role in the ongoing flood risk management discussion and provoke serious risk to the public as well as to the insurance sector. However, this type of flood, remains a poorly documented phenomenon. To address this gap, Swedish Pluvial Modelling Analysis and Safety Handling (SPLASH) project aims to develop new methods and types of data that improve the possibility to value flood risk in Swedish municipalities by collaboration between different disciplines.</p><p>SPLASH project allows to investigating the impact of heavy precipitation along the entire risk modelling chain, ultimate needed for effective prevention. This study presents a pluvial flood catastrophe modelling framework to identify and assess hazard, exposure and vulnerability in urban context. An integrated approach is adopted by incorporating ‘rainfall-damage’ patterns, flood inundation modelling, vulnerability tools and risk management. The project is developed in the ‘OASIS Loss Modelling Framework’ platform, jointly with end-users from the public sector and the insurance industry.</p><p>The Swedish case study indicates that the framework presented can be considered as an important decision making tool, by establishing an area for collaboration between academia; insurance businesses and rescue services, to reduce long-term disaster risk in Sweden.</p>

Case Study on Relationship Marketing

2014 ◽  
pp. 22-26
Author(s):  
Bhawana Sharma ◽  
Tulika Sood
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Marketing ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Insurance Industry ◽  
Sales Representative ◽  
Prime Concern ◽  
Lifetime Value ◽  
Production Concept ◽  
Brand Ambassadors

A paradigm shift has occurred in the concepts of marketing from the production concept to the societal concept. A prominent concept today is the customer concept, which aims to build loyalty and lifetime value by creating, maintaining, and enhancing relationships with the customer by addressing individual customer needs. Relationship marketing is a bifurcation from the customer concept, which seeks to earn and retain long-term preferences, business, and ultimately, a marketing network. In relationship marketing, both parties collaborate on identifying needs to fulfill. Immediate sales are not of prime concern in this model. Organizations should understand the fact of when–and how–to use relationship marketing. The five R’s of Relationship Marketing are Relationship, Realization, Response, Relevance, & Respect. This case study addresses relationship marketing focusing on a service industry (i.e. Insurance Industry). A Sales representative needs to bond well with all his clients in order to be able to meet their expectations as required. Therefore, an employee with good PR skills is sure to climb the ladder of success. The protagonist in the case study, Mr. Sahil Sharma, an Employee of AFRO-INDIA Insurance Ltd., guides and trains his entire team to build, maintain, and enhance their relationship with their clients. This will not only make the clients loyal to the organization, but also will also make them brand ambassadors through word of mouth.

Green Urban Public Bikes Rental System: A Case Study of Taipei YouBike

2013 ◽  
Vol 723 ◽  
pp. 968-975
Author(s):  
Hui Hua Yang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Clear Indication ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Transport System ◽  
System A ◽  
Actual Experience ◽  
Taipei City

Public bikes rental system is an innovative scheme of rental bicycles in urban areas and can be seen as part of the public transport system. This study investigates the users of Taipei YouBike rental system, analysis their intention and behaviors, pre-expectation and actual experience on satisfaction. The result indicates that the users were mostly from long term annual fee commuters. The result also reveals distinct discrepancies between pre-expectation and actual experience, especially in distributes of safety routes and environments and clear indication of signs on bike routes. The findings can be used for Taipei City to improve the urban bicycle program and make more effort to develop safety cycling infrastructures and amenities.

Influential Factors in IT Outsourcing Relationship in a Swedish Municipality

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreea Daniela Pana Talpeanu ◽  
Lazar Rusu
Keyword(s):  
Cost Efficiency ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
The Public ◽  
Is Research ◽  
Core Capabilities

Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) has generated considerable interest within Information Systems (IS) research as a consequence of its benefits in terms of cost efficiency and freedom to focus on core capabilities. This study covers the area of ITO in the public sector, specifically, in Swedish Municipalities where ITO has become a mainstream strategy. The influential ITO factors of the post-contract stage of an ITO relationship are examined and debated in light of existent research literature. The research is based on a case study of a Swedish Municipality and a direct IT vendor. A thematic analysis brings light upon three new ITO influential factors which are: (1) mutual understanding and long-term engagement; (2) Multi-sourcing, and (3) Communication between Municipalities, together with other seven factors present in the research literature that have an influence on the ITO relationship. The findings of this study can support ITO decision-makers from Swedish municipalities in improving the ITO relationship between their organizations and IT vendors.

What value do mangroves have in reducing the cost of storm surges?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Thomas ◽  
Siddharth Narayan ◽  
Joss Matthewman ◽  
Christine Shepard ◽  
Laura Geselbracht ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Storm Surge ◽  
Insurance Industry ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Storm Surges ◽  
Coastal Flooding ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Modelling Framework ◽  
Catastrophe Modelling ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact

<p>With coastlines becoming increasingly urbanised worldwide, the economic risk posed by storm surges to coastal communities has never been greater. Given the financial and ecological costs of manmade coastal defences, the past few years have seen growing interest in the effectiveness of natural coastal “defences” in reducing the risk of flooding to coastal properties, but estimating their actual economic value in reducing storm surge risk remains a challenging subject.</p><p>In this study, we estimate the value of mangroves in reducing annual losses to property from storm surges along a large stretch of coastline in Florida (USA), by employing a catastrophe modelling approach widely used in the insurance industry. We use a hydrodynamic coastal flood model coupled to a property loss model and a large property exposure dataset to estimate annual economic losses from hurricane-driven storm surges in Collier County, a hurricane-prone part of Florida. We then estimate the impact that removing mangroves in the region would have on average annual losses (AAL) caused by coastal flooding. We find that mangroves reduce AAL to properties behind them by over 25%, and that these benefits are distributed very heterogeneously along the coastline. Mangrove presence can also act to enhance the storm surge risk in areas where development has occurred seaward of mangroves.</p><p>In addition to looking at annual losses, we also focus on the storm surge caused by a specific severe event in Florida, based on Hurricane Irma (2017), and we estimate that existing mangroves reduced economic property damage by hundreds of millions of USD, and reduced coastal flooding for hundreds of thousands of people.</p><p>Together these studies aim to financially quantify some of the risk reduction services provided by natural defences in terms of reducing the cost of coastal flooding, and show that these services can be included in a catastrophe modelling framework commonly used in the insurance industry.</p>

scholarly journals The need for a long-term mindset when measuring the effects of lean on health-related quality management values

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pernilla Ingelsson ◽  
Ingela Bäckström
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Health Related Quality ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects a lean initiative has on the health-related quality management (QM) values, “Leadership Commitment” and “Participation of Everybody,” as well as on perceived co-worker health in the public sector. Design/methodology/approach A case study was carried out at a municipal division that had been working with lean for approximately 18 months. A questionnaire was used to measure the effect on health-related QM values both before and after the initial 18 month period. Documents from the intended lean implementation were studied at the starting point and after 18 months; this was followed up by examining new documents. The results from the questionnaires were analyzed using SPSS and the documents were analyzed by means of document comparisons and consensus discussion in the research group. Findings The effects on the health-related QM values; “Leadership Commitment” and “Participation of everybody” in this study showed that the values still permeated the organization to a relatively high extent after 18 months but that no statistical differences can be shown between the two measurement points. When measuring what effects a lean initiative has on values, a period of 18 months might be too short, if significance changes are expected. None the less, the results can be a way of monitoring the development of these softer values. Something that is equally important is to see if there have been any major changes, as a way of keeping the work with building a new culture alive and in focus. The results strengthen the assumption that a long-term mindset is needed when QM initiatives such as lean are applied within an organization especially when changes to values and workplaces are expected. Originality/value This study has further explored the QM in relation to lean in the respect of how the QM values “Leadership commitment” and “Participation of Everybody” are effected by a lean initiative.

scholarly journals Framework for the Integrated Sustainability Assessment of Irrigation with Marginal Water

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 1168
Author(s):  
Pavan Cornelissen ◽  
Sjoerd E. A. T. M. van der Zee ◽  
Anton Leijnse
Keyword(s):  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Quality Standards ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Reclaimed Wastewater ◽  
The Public ◽  
Integrated Sustainability ◽  
Environmental Compartments

The use of marginal water, such as reclaimed wastewater or effluent, for irrigation can reduce the pressure on existing freshwater resources. However, this can cause contaminants to accumulate in compartments such as the soil, crop, air, surface- and groundwater, which may harm the public health and the environment. Environmental quality standards for these compartments are generally considered separately. However, the compartments are related to each other by the fluxes between them, and the concept of sustainability should hold for all compartments simultaneously. An integrated approach is therefore required for the sustainability assessment of irrigation with marginal water. Since such an approach has not been provided yet, we develop an integrated framework in this study. We provide sustainability indicators by comparing the long-term contaminant concentration and fluxes with quality standards for each environmental compartment. These indicators give comprehensible information on which contaminants will cause problems, which environmental compartments are threatened, and on what timescale this will occur. This allows for the prioritization of mitigation and preventive measures for better sustainability management. We illustrate the use of the framework by means of a case study.

scholarly journals Temporary Uses of Urban Brownfields for Creative Activities in a Post-Socialist City. Case Study: Timișoara (Romania)

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 8095
Author(s):  
Alexandra-Camelia Marian-Potra ◽  
Ramona Ișfănescu-Ivan ◽  
Sorin Pavel ◽  
Cătălina Ancuța
Keyword(s):  
Financial Instability ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Event Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Large Size ◽  
The One ◽  
Community Space ◽  
Urban Brownfields

The linking (in terms of functional use) of brownfield sites with creative spaces is a frequently encountered phenomenon in western European, post-communist, and industrialized countries in general and is viewed as a way of revitalizing, repurposing, or simply making temporary use of them. It may also be seen in the municipality of Timișoara in Romania, where 12 creative spaces, each involving one or more kinds of functionalities (coworking space, maker space, community space, event space, incubator), are operating on such sites. A content analysis of interviews with those in charge of these 12 creative spaces brought to light, on the one hand, the opportunities represented by the existence of derelict industrial spaces, as represented by their large size, low rents, and innate flexibility, but on the other the reality of a number of long-term constraints on the use of these spaces, given the financial instability of cultural operators, the limited numbers of the public who are interested in creative activities of this kind, and, most seriously, the development pressure exerted by some real-estate developers on derelict industrial spaces.

scholarly journals The Public Health Insurance Coverage of Novel Targeted Anticancer Medicines in China—In Favor of Whom? A Retrospective Analysis of the Insurance Claim Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingshuang Li ◽  
Yifan Diao ◽  
Jianchun Ye ◽  
Jing Sun ◽  
Yu Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Lung Cancer ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Health Insurance Coverage ◽  
Claim Data ◽  
Public Health Insurance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Supplementary Health Insurance ◽  
Insurance Claim Data

Objectives: This study took Fuzhou city as a case, described how the public health insurance coverage policy in 2016 of novel anti-lung cancer medicines benefited patients, and who benefited the most from the policy in China.Methods: This was a retrospective study based on health insurance claim data with a longitudinal analysis of the level and trend changes of the monthly number of patients to initiate treatment with the novel targeted anti-lung cancer medicines gefitinib and icotinib before and after health insurance coverage. The study also conducted a multivariate linear regression analysis to predict the potential determinants of the share of patient out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditure for lung cancer treatment with the study medicines.Results: The monthly number of the insured patients in Fuzhou who initiated the treatment with the studied novel targeted anti-lung cancer medication abruptly increased by 26 in the month of the health insurance coverage (95% CI: 14–37, p < 0.01) and kept at an increasing level afterward (p < 0.01). By controlling the other factors, the shares of OOP expenditure for lung cancer treatment of the patients who were formal employee program enrollees not entitled to government-funded supplementary health insurance coverage and resident program enrollees were 18.3% (95% CI: 14.1–22.6) and 26.7% (95% CI: 21.0–32.4) higher than that of the patients who were formal employee program enrollees with government-funded supplementary health insurance coverage.Conclusion: The public health insurance coverage of novel anti-lung cancer medicines benefited patients generally. To enable that patients benefit from this policy more equally and thoroughly, in order to achieve the policy goal of not to leave anyone behind, it is necessary to strengthen the benefits package of the resident program and to optimize the current financing mechanism of the public health insurance system.

Altmetric scores: short-term popularity or long-term scientific importance

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 314-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edith Starbuck ◽  
Sharon Purtee
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Obesity And Diabetes ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
The University

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to report on a three-year case study of the extent with which altmetrics compare to traditional metrics in certain subject areas for selected departments at the University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine (COM). Design/methodology/approachA three-year analysis of peer-reviewed papers and invited editorials from 2009 to 2013 written by tenure-track faculty from 20 COM departments was done to explore what subject areas received the highest altmetric scores. Research output was searched in PubMed; articles were quantified by subject area, times cited in Scopus, and its altmetric score over each of three successive years. FindingsThe topics of the highest scored altmetric papers (n = 40) sample focused on stroke, obesity, and diabetes for all three years. Analysis of high initial altmetric scores over the course of the three years shifted from a possible predictor of future impact in the second year to no indicator of long-term interest in the scientific community as the public interest waned over time. Research limitations/implicationsThe authors used Scopus Times Cited and Altmetrics.com to gather data. Originality/valueInitially assessed a total of 3,678 unique publications and worked with the 40 highest altmetric scores in subsequent years. Data showed that subjects of interest to the public receive the highest altmetric scores and the topic areas did not change over the course of the study. These initially high altmetric scores do not indicate long-term interest by the scientific community.

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