Flood
This page has links to selected research and conference papers on issues related to the assessment and funding of losses from flood and other natural disasters.
The Institute has made the following submissions
The Institute has held and/or co-hosted the following seminars:-
- Flood Resilience: Risks, Mitigation and Funding Solutions in Sydney on May 16, 2011. Further information is available here.
- Natural Disaster Insurance Review Seminar in Sydney on 6 July 2011 was co-hosted with the Insurance Council of Australia. Further information is available here.
At this event a large number of questions were lodged by SMS texts which were not addressed by the panel on the day. Members of the panel have since provided brief answers to most questions submitted and they are now available here.
Various Papers, Presentations and Audio are available below
- Natural disasters in Australia: Issues of funding and insurance, Chris Latham, Peter McCourt & Chris Larkin, November 2010. Paper, presentation, and audio from the Institute’s 17th General Insurance Seminar.
- The Insurance of Flood Risks, Institute’s Flood Working Party. Paper and presentation from the Institute’s 17th General Insurance Seminar.
- Impact of Global Warming on Insured Flood Costs, Institute’s Flood Working Party. Presentation from the Institute’s 17th General Insurance Seminar.
- Hard to Insure Flood Risks – Possible Funding Solutions, Institute’s Flood Working Party. Paper, presentation and audio from the Institute’s 2009 Convention.
- Weather risks in Central Europe, Munich RE. Paper from Munich Reinsurance Company of Canada (external site).
Media releases are available here.
For additional or related papers please type ‘flood’ into the search engine.
