Action Plan Adaptation (2011) 87
actuarial: calculation 40; fairness
62–63; insurance 40, 56; knowledge
40, 222; orthodoxy 59; program of
flood insurance 61; rationalism 221;
science 221; technologies 152
adaptation: climate change 15–17, 25,
87–88, 224; flood 86–87, 91; insurance
as principal mechanism for 223
adequate insurance 5, 96, 157
affordability: of fire insurance in
Australia 119–121; of fire insurance in
United States 119–121
air 2; currents 178; and insurance
139–140; intangibility of 140; manifestations 139; radioactive pollution
177; risk and insurance 5–6; sensing
173–176
allusive market 65
alternative capital 154n2
Anthropocene 44–47, 167–168, 171, 177;
catastrophic earth system dynamics
40; critical scholars of 44; renaturalising sovereignty in 47–50
archival-statistical knowledge 3, 37
Aristotle 183
Arrow-Lind theorem 43–44
Artemis ILS Asia Conference 145
ASEAN 150
atmospheres 173–176; affective 167–168,
170–171, 174–175, 177, 220; frameworks 170–171; material 175; physical
170; ungovernable 170
Australia: affordability of fire insurance in 119–121; availability of fire
insurance in 119–121; ‘Black
Summer’ bushfires 99;
bushfire-related insurance 100;
bushfires in 111–121; fire politics in
126; fires in 99, 101–102; and flood
resilience 78–79; floods as periodic
event in 72; inadequate insurance of
dwellings for fire in 114–119; ‘Sum
Certain’ 114; ‘Total Replacement’
114; Victorian Cladding Task Force
Interim Report 125
Australian Securities & Investment
Commission (ASIC) 114–115
availability: of fire insurance in
Australia 119–121; of fire insurance in
United States 119–121
Aviva 201, 212, 214, 215
banana wars 47
bargaining data 193–195
basis risk, index insurance 30, 31–32
Beck, Ulrich 40
behaviour(s): -based insurance
188–198; market, of insurers 120; risk
mitigating 41; risk-reduction 17
behavioural insurance: bargaining data
193–195; data doubt 195–197; findings 191–197; method and analysis
190–191; personal data in 187–198;
policy, adopting 191–193; research
methodology 189–191; research site
and focus 189–190
behaviour-based insurance 188–189,
191–192, 197; see also behavioural
insurance
Bergson, Henri 32
big data 2, 6, 183–185, 221, 223
biological citizenship 169
‘Black Summer’ bushfires 99
Index
Note: Page numbers in italics denotes figures, in bold tables and with “n” endnotes.
actuarial: calculation 40; fairness
62–63; insurance 40, 56; knowledge
40, 222; orthodoxy 59; program of
flood insurance 61; rationalism 221;
science 221; technologies 152
adaptation: climate change 15–17, 25,
87–88, 224; flood 86–87, 91; insurance
as principal mechanism for 223
adequate insurance 5, 96, 157
affordability: of fire insurance in
Australia 119–121; of fire insurance in
United States 119–121
air 2; currents 178; and insurance
139–140; intangibility of 140; manifestations 139; radioactive pollution
177; risk and insurance 5–6; sensing
173–176
allusive market 65
alternative capital 154n2
Anthropocene 44–47, 167–168, 171, 177;
catastrophic earth system dynamics
40; critical scholars of 44; renaturalising sovereignty in 47–50
archival-statistical knowledge 3, 37
Aristotle 183
Arrow-Lind theorem 43–44
Artemis ILS Asia Conference 145
ASEAN 150
atmospheres 173–176; affective 167–168,
170–171, 174–175, 177, 220; frameworks 170–171; material 175; physical
170; ungovernable 170
Australia: affordability of fire insurance in 119–121; availability of fire
insurance in 119–121; ‘Black
Summer’ bushfires 99;
bushfire-related insurance 100;
bushfires in 111–121; fire politics in
126; fires in 99, 101–102; and flood
resilience 78–79; floods as periodic
event in 72; inadequate insurance of
dwellings for fire in 114–119; ‘Sum
Certain’ 114; ‘Total Replacement’
114; Victorian Cladding Task Force
Interim Report 125
Australian Securities & Investment
Commission (ASIC) 114–115
availability: of fire insurance in
Australia 119–121; of fire insurance in
United States 119–121
Aviva 201, 212, 214, 215
banana wars 47
bargaining data 193–195
basis risk, index insurance 30, 31–32
Beck, Ulrich 40
behaviour(s): -based insurance
188–198; market, of insurers 120; risk
mitigating 41; risk-reduction 17
behavioural insurance: bargaining data
193–195; data doubt 195–197; findings 191–197; method and analysis
190–191; personal data in 187–198;
policy, adopting 191–193; research
methodology 189–191; research site
and focus 189–190
behaviour-based insurance 188–189,
191–192, 197; see also behavioural
insurance
Bergson, Henri 32
big data 2, 6, 183–185, 221, 223
biological citizenship 169
‘Black Summer’ bushfires 99
Index
Note: Page numbers in italics denotes figures, in bold tables and with “n” endnotes.