Disaster Mitigation and Insurance: Learning from Katrina

By Howard Kunreuther. 2006

265 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. W. Botzen
2. Neil Malhotra
3. Andrew J. Healy
4. Timothy J. Pleskac
5. R. Hau
6. J. van den Bergh
7. Ralph Hertwig
8. Juergen Kiefer

In Global and Planetary Change

1. W. Botzen
2. Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts
3. J. van den Bergh
4. Andrew J. Healy
5. Neil Malhotra
6. Daniel Osberghaus

Citations in the corpus

• Myopic Voters and Natural Disaster Policy (2009, background): “Indeed, Kunreuther (2006) found that suboptimal insurance coverage is often compensated by government-provided relief. federal government’s handling of events such as the Loma Prieta earthquake and Hurricane Andrew focused on failures in assisting victims ex-post.12 The Value of…”
• The impact of extreme weather events on budget balances (2009, unknown): “A significant body of literature deals with coping strategies in the aftermath of a disaster with a special focus on natural disaster insurance and the adaptive capacity of countries (e.g., Townsend 1994; Kunreuther 2006; Dayton-Johnson 2006; IMF 2007).”
• Informing Climate Adaptation: A Review of the Economic Costs of Natural Disasters, Their Determinants, and Risk Reduction Options (2012, unknown): “In the context of the United States, Kunreuther and Pauly (2006) discuss a four-layer scheme.”
• Willingness of homeowners to mitigate climate risk through insurance (2009, background): “Practical experience suggests that individuals rarely undertake mitigation measures voluntarily (Kunreuther, 2006a).”
• Risk Preferences, Risk Perceptions, and Flood Insurance (2013, unknown): “…make the case for both risk perceptions and preferences affecting flood insurance decisions (Kunreuther 1984, 1996, 2006; Braun and Muermann 2004; Kunreuther and Pauly 2004, 2006; Kousky, Luttmer, and Zeckhauser 2006; Smith et al. 2006; Kousky 2010a; Michel-Kerjan and Kousky 2010), there exists…”
• The Description-Experience Gap in Risky Choice: The Role of Sample Size and Experienced Probabilities (2008, background): “Yet, people tend not to purchase insurance—unless legally required to— for events that occur with low frequency but have severe consequences (Anderson, 1974; Kunreuther, 2006; Slovic, Fischhoff, Lichtenstein, Corrigan, & Combs, 1977).”