226 Index
Brussels Supplementary Convention of
1963 169
budget reallocations 46
Building Code of Australia (BCA) 125,
129–130, 134–135
Building Resilience Rating Tool 134
buildings: eco-friendly 128; in flood
zone 85; green 128–129; industrial
assurance 209; insurance company 6; and LCA 132; monumental
184; prize energy-efficient 130;
refurbished 201–202; residential
89; retro-fitted 215; stonework of
209; sustainable 125–136; trust in
202–207, 205, 206
bushfires: in Australia 111–121; ‘Black
Summer’ 99; Blue Mountains
101–102; destroyed home 100–101;
Kangaroo Valley 101–102; -related
insurance 100; see also wildfires
bushfire survivors: case studies 101–102;
insurance and wellbeing 102–103; on
intangible objects 105–107; on their
loss 100; and time 101
Cairns 140, 159–161, 163–165
California Department of Insurance
(CDI) 115, 117
California wildfires 115
Caliskan, K 128
Callon, M 128
capital: accumulation 41; alternative
154n2; global 10; global investment
223; risks of 36, 134; social 77
capital markets 40, 144, 147, 152, 168,
201, 207, 216
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) 19
carbon farming 19, 20
Carbon Farming Australia 22n2
Caribbean 3; autonomy in postindependent 46, 49; banana-producing
countries 47; index insurance in 10;
plantation economy 41–42
Caribbean Catastrophic Risk
Insurance Facility (CCRIF) 48
catastrophe bonds 46, 168
catastrophe insurance 16, 41–42, 46
catastrophe models 3, 40, 117, 222
catastrophes: modelers 117; property
catastrophe re/insurance 143–153;
weather-related 26–27
catastrophic risks 40, 168
Chernobyl 157, 222; air-borne distribution of radiation from 6; nuclear
disaster site 140; nuclear powerplant
explosion 6; wildfires 220
Chornobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ):
and air 173–176; and atmospheres
173–176; atmospheric frameworks
170–171; overview 167–170; and radiation 173–176; volumetric sovereignty
and leaky materialities 176–177;
wildfires in 167–178
climate: future 13; governance 151;
resilience 78; uncertainty 5, 153
climate change: adaptation 15–17, 25,
87–88, 224; bypassing, with index
insurance 37; and geoengineering 15;
and Germany 87; and insurance 1;
risk society thesis 40
climate impact denial 15–16
climate risk: and insurance 1; management 16
collective: insurance 222–224; risks 222;
threats 222
commercial insurance 16, 18; and agricultural soil carbon efforts 20
Commercial Union 212
commodified risk management 32
community: -level investment in flood
management 72; resilience 71, 76, 79;
scientific 173
Community Rating System (CRS) 64
concessional lending 46
contents insurance 100, 103–105
contingency funds 41–42, 46, 49
contingent debt instruments 46
contingent liabilities 42–43
coverage and payments structure (index
insurance) 30
Covid-19 pandemic 159, 174
cradle-to-gate assessment 132
cradle-to-grave ecological assessment
132
cross-subsidies: challenges with
ending 67–68; equity, and ending of
62–63; flood insurance 59–60; United
Kingdom 60; United States 60
cross-subsidisation: continued 62; and
flood insurance 65; ‘flow’ or fluidity
of 56; insidious effects of 59;
minimising/eliminating 4, 60–62,
64, 66, 223
customers: of behaviour-based
life insurance 190–191; and data
practices 189; delight 213; and
information asymmetry 198; and
insurer-insuree relationship 6;
Brussels Supplementary Convention of
1963 169
budget reallocations 46
Building Code of Australia (BCA) 125,
129–130, 134–135
Building Resilience Rating Tool 134
buildings: eco-friendly 128; in flood
zone 85; green 128–129; industrial
assurance 209; insurance company 6; and LCA 132; monumental
184; prize energy-efficient 130;
refurbished 201–202; residential
89; retro-fitted 215; stonework of
209; sustainable 125–136; trust in
202–207, 205, 206
bushfires: in Australia 111–121; ‘Black
Summer’ 99; Blue Mountains
101–102; destroyed home 100–101;
Kangaroo Valley 101–102; -related
insurance 100; see also wildfires
bushfire survivors: case studies 101–102;
insurance and wellbeing 102–103; on
intangible objects 105–107; on their
loss 100; and time 101
Cairns 140, 159–161, 163–165
California Department of Insurance
(CDI) 115, 117
California wildfires 115
Caliskan, K 128
Callon, M 128
capital: accumulation 41; alternative
154n2; global 10; global investment
223; risks of 36, 134; social 77
capital markets 40, 144, 147, 152, 168,
201, 207, 216
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) 19
carbon farming 19, 20
Carbon Farming Australia 22n2
Caribbean 3; autonomy in postindependent 46, 49; banana-producing
countries 47; index insurance in 10;
plantation economy 41–42
Caribbean Catastrophic Risk
Insurance Facility (CCRIF) 48
catastrophe bonds 46, 168
catastrophe insurance 16, 41–42, 46
catastrophe models 3, 40, 117, 222
catastrophes: modelers 117; property
catastrophe re/insurance 143–153;
weather-related 26–27
catastrophic risks 40, 168
Chernobyl 157, 222; air-borne distribution of radiation from 6; nuclear
disaster site 140; nuclear powerplant
explosion 6; wildfires 220
Chornobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ):
and air 173–176; and atmospheres
173–176; atmospheric frameworks
170–171; overview 167–170; and radiation 173–176; volumetric sovereignty
and leaky materialities 176–177;
wildfires in 167–178
climate: future 13; governance 151;
resilience 78; uncertainty 5, 153
climate change: adaptation 15–17, 25,
87–88, 224; bypassing, with index
insurance 37; and geoengineering 15;
and Germany 87; and insurance 1;
risk society thesis 40
climate impact denial 15–16
climate risk: and insurance 1; management 16
collective: insurance 222–224; risks 222;
threats 222
commercial insurance 16, 18; and agricultural soil carbon efforts 20
Commercial Union 212
commodified risk management 32
community: -level investment in flood
management 72; resilience 71, 76, 79;
scientific 173
Community Rating System (CRS) 64
concessional lending 46
contents insurance 100, 103–105
contingency funds 41–42, 46, 49
contingent debt instruments 46
contingent liabilities 42–43
coverage and payments structure (index
insurance) 30
Covid-19 pandemic 159, 174
cradle-to-gate assessment 132
cradle-to-grave ecological assessment
132
cross-subsidies: challenges with
ending 67–68; equity, and ending of
62–63; flood insurance 59–60; United
Kingdom 60; United States 60
cross-subsidisation: continued 62; and
flood insurance 65; ‘flow’ or fluidity
of 56; insidious effects of 59;
minimising/eliminating 4, 60–62,
64, 66, 223
customers: of behaviour-based
life insurance 190–191; and data
practices 189; delight 213; and
information asymmetry 198; and
insurer-insuree relationship 6;