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Notes
1 Re/insurance is shorthand for the insurance and reinsurance market. Reinsurance is a form of insurance for insurers.
2 While ILS refers to a specific subset of insurance-based financial instruments,
it also signals a larger universe of ‘alternative capital’ arrangements within the
re/insurance industry.
3 Hurricanes in the Atlantic Basin are categorised by wind speed along the
Saffir-Simpson Scale: Category 1 (74–95 mph, 119–153 km/h), Category
2 (96–110 mph, 154–177 km/h), Category 3 (111–129 mph, 178–208 km/h),
Category 4 (130–156 mph, 209– 251 km/h), Category 5 (≥157 mph, ≥252 km/h).
Categories 3-5 storms are classified as ‘major.’
References
Aon Benfield 2020, ‘ILS annual report 2020’, Alternative Capital: Growth Potential
and Resilience, Chicago: Aon Benfield.
Audirac, I, Shermyen, A & Smith, M 1990, ‘Ideal urban form and visions of the good
life: Florida’s growth management dilemma’, Journal of the American Planning
Association, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 470–482.
Bernard, R & Rice, B 1983, Sunbelt Cities: Politics and Growth since World War II,
Austin: University of Texas Press.
Booth, K 2021, ‘Insurance, and the prospects of insurability’, In Knox-Hayes,
J & Wojcik, D (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Financial Geography, London:
Routledge.
Catlin, R 1997, Land Use Planning, Environmental Protection, and Growth
Management: The Florida Experience, Chelsea, MI: Ann Arbor Press.
Christophers, B, Bigger, P & Johnson, L 2020, ‘Stretching scales? Risk and sociality
in climate finance’, Environment and Planning A, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 88–110.
Chua, B.H 2017, Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in
Singapore, Singapore: NUS Press.
Dodge, A 2020, The Singaporean natural gas hub: Reassembling global production
networks and markets in Asia, Journal of Economic Geography, vol. 20, no. 5,
pp. 1241–1262.
Elliott, R 2021, Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of
Climate Change in the United States, New York: Columbia University Press.
Fields, D 2018, ‘Constructing a new asset class: Property-led financial accumulation
after the crisis’, Economic Geography, vol. 94, no. 2, pp. 118–140.
Florida Office of Insurance Regulation n.d., Quarterly Supplemental Report –
Market Share Report, All Insurers, All Residential Lines, Q4 2018,
Grove, K 2012, ‘Pre-empting the next disaster: Catastrophe insurance and the financialization of disaster management’, Security Dialogue, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 139–155.
Haila, A 2016, Urban Land Rent: Singapore as a Property State, Chichester, UK:
John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Jarzabkowski, P, Bednarek, R & Spee, P 2015, Making a Market for Acts of God:
The Practice of Risk Trading in the Global Reinsurance Industry, Oxford: Oxford
University Press
Johnson, L, 2013, ‘Catastrophe bonds and financial risk: Securing capital and rule
through contingency’, Geoforum, vol. 45, pp. 30–40.
Notes
1 Re/insurance is shorthand for the insurance and reinsurance market. Reinsurance is a form of insurance for insurers.
2 While ILS refers to a specific subset of insurance-based financial instruments,
it also signals a larger universe of ‘alternative capital’ arrangements within the
re/insurance industry.
3 Hurricanes in the Atlantic Basin are categorised by wind speed along the
Saffir-Simpson Scale: Category 1 (74–95 mph, 119–153 km/h), Category
2 (96–110 mph, 154–177 km/h), Category 3 (111–129 mph, 178–208 km/h),
Category 4 (130–156 mph, 209– 251 km/h), Category 5 (≥157 mph, ≥252 km/h).
Categories 3-5 storms are classified as ‘major.’
References
Aon Benfield 2020, ‘ILS annual report 2020’, Alternative Capital: Growth Potential
and Resilience, Chicago: Aon Benfield.
Audirac, I, Shermyen, A & Smith, M 1990, ‘Ideal urban form and visions of the good
life: Florida’s growth management dilemma’, Journal of the American Planning
Association, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 470–482.
Bernard, R & Rice, B 1983, Sunbelt Cities: Politics and Growth since World War II,
Austin: University of Texas Press.
Booth, K 2021, ‘Insurance, and the prospects of insurability’, In Knox-Hayes,
J & Wojcik, D (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Financial Geography, London:
Routledge.
Catlin, R 1997, Land Use Planning, Environmental Protection, and Growth
Management: The Florida Experience, Chelsea, MI: Ann Arbor Press.
Christophers, B, Bigger, P & Johnson, L 2020, ‘Stretching scales? Risk and sociality
in climate finance’, Environment and Planning A, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 88–110.
Chua, B.H 2017, Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in
Singapore, Singapore: NUS Press.
Dodge, A 2020, The Singaporean natural gas hub: Reassembling global production
networks and markets in Asia, Journal of Economic Geography, vol. 20, no. 5,
pp. 1241–1262.
Elliott, R 2021, Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of
Climate Change in the United States, New York: Columbia University Press.
Fields, D 2018, ‘Constructing a new asset class: Property-led financial accumulation
after the crisis’, Economic Geography, vol. 94, no. 2, pp. 118–140.
Florida Office of Insurance Regulation n.d., Quarterly Supplemental Report –
Market Share Report, All Insurers, All Residential Lines, Q4 2018,
Grove, K 2012, ‘Pre-empting the next disaster: Catastrophe insurance and the financialization of disaster management’, Security Dialogue, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 139–155.
Haila, A 2016, Urban Land Rent: Singapore as a Property State, Chichester, UK:
John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Jarzabkowski, P, Bednarek, R & Spee, P 2015, Making a Market for Acts of God:
The Practice of Risk Trading in the Global Reinsurance Industry, Oxford: Oxford
University Press
Johnson, L, 2013, ‘Catastrophe bonds and financial risk: Securing capital and rule
through contingency’, Geoforum, vol. 45, pp. 30–40.