scholarly journals Interview of Natural Hazards and Seismic Catastrophe Insurance Research in China

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Catastrophe Insurance

scholarly journals Prediction of insurance loss from earthquakes

1997 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-45
Author(s):  
G. R. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Prediction Models ◽  
Catastrophe Insurance ◽  
Loss Prediction ◽  
Earthquake Loss

This paper outlines the nature of catastrophe insurance and how developments in information technology are providing tools which overcome many of the problems associated historically with estimating the risk of insurance loss from major natural hazards. A brief description of earthquake loss prediction models is presented, some of their current shortcomings highlighted, and the major priorities for research discussed.

Young Adolescents and Natural Hazards. The Perceived Vulnerability of the Vesuvius Risk

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 77-80
Author(s):  
Domenico Trezza ◽  
Marianna Giordano
Keyword(s):  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Young Adolescents ◽  
Perceived Vulnerability

Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
Natural Hazards

A System Approach to the Reduction of Damage Costs due to Natural Hazards

2002 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-35
Author(s):  
Bryan Adey ◽  
Rade Hajdin ◽  
Eugen Brühwiler
Keyword(s):  
Natural Hazards ◽  
System Approach ◽  
Damage Costs

United States Geological Survey (USGS) Natural Hazards Response

Fact Sheet ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rynn M. Lamb ◽  
Brenda K. Jones
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
United States Geological Survey

Natural Hazards - A National Threat

Fact Sheet ◽  
2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
U.S. Geological Survey
Keyword(s):  
Natural Hazards

Graubündens Wald im Fokus | Focus on the Grisons forest

2009 ◽  
Vol 160 (7) ◽  
pp. 195-200
Author(s):  
Reto Hefti
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Intensive Use ◽  
Form Part ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Government

In the mountainous canton Grisons, much visited by tourists, the forest has always had an important role to play. New challenges are now presenting themselves. The article goes more closely into two themes on the Grisons forestry agenda dominating in the next few years: the increased use of timber and climate change. With the increased demand for logs and the new sawmill in Domat/Ems new opportunities are offered to the canton for more intensive use of the raw material, wood. This depends on a reduction in production costs and a positive attitude of the population towards the greater use of wood. A series of measures from the Grisons Forestry Department should be of help here. The risk of damage to infrastructure is particularly high in a mountainous canton. The cantonal government of the Grisons has commissioned the Forestry Department to define the situation concerning the possible consequences of global warming on natural hazards and to propose measures which may be taken. The setting up of extensive measurement and information systems, the elaboration of intervention maps, the estimation of the danger potential in exposed areas outside the building zone and the maintenance of existing protective constructions through the creation of a protective constructions register, all form part of the government programme for 2009 to 2012. In the Grisons, forest owners and visitors will have to become accustomed to the fact that their forests must again produce more wood and that, on account of global warming, protective forests will become even more important than they already are today.

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