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Special Issue: Disaster Resilience and Insurance

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This special issue features articles presented at the Workshop or related to topic. The Workshop was organized under the coordination of the Risk Center at ETH Zurich. It focused on climate change-related and natural disasters, emerging extreme threats (“x-threats” or XTs), insurance, and its interactions with public sectors and other stakeholders, considering the interconnectedness of critical infrastructures. Topics to be included into the scope of this Special Issue target, but are not limited to, the following: Editorials: Editors, EU representatives Current priorities and options in disaster management, re/insurance and policies: • Non-quantifiable risks, insurance priorities and strategies • Soft tools in insurance • Probabilities and impacts of extreme threats/events • Insurance in emerging risks context, technical and socio-ethical considerations Extreme threats: Identification, analysis, forecasting, and data: • Defining and characterizing extreme threats • Climate and weather modelling for insurance • Extreme threat triggering or amplification by hybrid and other threats • COVID as an “XT” – resilience and interconnectedness of health and other infrastructures Resilience assessment and insurance at different levels in society: • Engineering resilience in critical infrastructure exposed to extreme threats • Digital twining, AI, and other advanced tools for ensuring resilience of critical infrastructures • Risk and Resilience analysis “as-a-service” for insurance • Integrating risk, situational awareness, and resilience Aligning insurance and resilience-related practices and policies: • Standardization • Public-private partnership • Policies • EU and national regulation (directives, guidelines, etc.)

Editors

  • Hélène Schernberg Hélène Schernberg , 

    Hélène Schernberg

    Executive Director, ETH Risk Center, Zurich, Switzerland A qualified member of the French Institute of Actuaries and a member of the Swiss Association of Actuaries, she holds a doctorate in Economics (ETH Medal), a MSc in Statistics and Economics, and an engineering degree. In addition, she has four years' experience in the insurance industry where she specialised in longevity and financial modelling.

  • Aleksandar Jovanovic Aleksandar Jovanovic  &

    Aleksandar Jovanovic

    CEO, Steinbeis Advanced Risk Technologies, ETH Risk Center visiting professor, Zurich, Switzerland

  • Giovanni Sansavini Giovanni Sansavini

    Giovanni Sansavini

    Chairman, ETH Risk Center, Zurich, Switzerland

Articles (16 in this collection)