228 Index
strategies 46; resilience 79–80; risk
modelling 25; self-sufficiency 4;
services 26, 29, 36, 149, 152; stocks 20;
sustainability 10; technologies 26
Finland 189
Finnish Financial Supervisory
Authority (FIN-FSA) 189
fire 2, 5, 95–97; and Australia 99,
101–102; importance of 95; protection
strategy 129–130; protection systems
129; urban 127
fire insurance 5, 95, 111–121; affordability and availability of 119–121;
and bushfires 99; calculating
sustainability 132–133; defining
sustainability 128; of dwellings in
Australia 119–121; of dwellings in
United States 119–121; fire insurers
and economisation of sustainability
130–131; and fire politics 126–128;
property developers and economisation of sustainability 128–130; and
sustainability 126–128; and
sustainable buildings 125–136; tools
of sustainability 133–135
fire insurers: British 95; and economisation of sustainability 130–131
fire object 96
fire politics 126; and fire insurance
126–128; and sustainability 126–128
fire protection manufacturers 134;
active 134; passive 134
fire sale 104
flood hazards: and Germany 86–88;
governance of 87; and urban
planning 87
flood insurance: cross-subsidy 59–60;
and Deggendorf case study 83–92; as
governance mechanism 83; pricing
in United Kingdom 59; pricing in
United States 59; private 88; recovery
with and without 89–90; in United
Kingdom 4; in United States 4; see
also insurance
‘flood insurance rate maps’ (FIRMs)
61–62
Flood Re (United Kingdom) 64–67
flood resilience: and Australia 78–79;
and United States 78–79; see also
resilience
floods 219; damage in Hobart and
Houston 71; as expensive disaster in
United States 72; and housing tenure
88–89; impacts on demography 88;
as periodic event in Australia 72; risk
mitigation 70–71; riverine 86
Florida: hurricane wind risk 143–153;
hurricane wind risk in 5, 140,
143–153; and ILS 144–145; insurer
direct ILS issuance 147; re/insurance
risk capital 144; underwriting urban
fortunes 145–148, 147
fluid space 2
‘force-placed’ insurance 112–113
Freud, Sigmund 15
Fukushima disaster 169
General Accident 212
General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR) 188–190
geo-engineering: and climate change
15; as insurance 14–18; as insurance
market 14–18; as moral hazard 17;
options as ultrahazardous 18; rogue
18; soil-based 20
Geoengineering: a possible climate
change insurance policy 14
German Climate Change Adaptation
Strategy (2008) 87
Germany 145, 223; and climate change
87; Federal Water Act 86; and flood
hazards 86–88; flood insurance in 88
Giddens, A 157–158, 160
Global 14
Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF)
project 3
governance: climate 151; disaster 50;
finance-based 36; insurantialisation
of 49; mechanism and equitable risk
reduction 83–92; political 25; racialized 10; transformations 45; urban
fire 125–136
government: and EARM 4; flood
resilience discursively constructed by
78–79; and home insurance 70; and
insurance industry 78–79; neo-liberal
223; Poverty Reduction Strategies
Papers (PRSP) 47; and private insurance 120
Government of the Commonwealth of
Dominica (GCD) 41–42; IMF recommendations for 48–49; insurantialisation of governance 49; Structural
Adjustment Programme (SAP) 47
Great Fire of London (1666) 95, 111,
202
Green Building Council of Australia
(GBCA) 133
strategies 46; resilience 79–80; risk
modelling 25; self-sufficiency 4;
services 26, 29, 36, 149, 152; stocks 20;
sustainability 10; technologies 26
Finland 189
Finnish Financial Supervisory
Authority (FIN-FSA) 189
fire 2, 5, 95–97; and Australia 99,
101–102; importance of 95; protection
strategy 129–130; protection systems
129; urban 127
fire insurance 5, 95, 111–121; affordability and availability of 119–121;
and bushfires 99; calculating
sustainability 132–133; defining
sustainability 128; of dwellings in
Australia 119–121; of dwellings in
United States 119–121; fire insurers
and economisation of sustainability
130–131; and fire politics 126–128;
property developers and economisation of sustainability 128–130; and
sustainability 126–128; and
sustainable buildings 125–136; tools
of sustainability 133–135
fire insurers: British 95; and economisation of sustainability 130–131
fire object 96
fire politics 126; and fire insurance
126–128; and sustainability 126–128
fire protection manufacturers 134;
active 134; passive 134
fire sale 104
flood hazards: and Germany 86–88;
governance of 87; and urban
planning 87
flood insurance: cross-subsidy 59–60;
and Deggendorf case study 83–92; as
governance mechanism 83; pricing
in United Kingdom 59; pricing in
United States 59; private 88; recovery
with and without 89–90; in United
Kingdom 4; in United States 4; see
also insurance
‘flood insurance rate maps’ (FIRMs)
61–62
Flood Re (United Kingdom) 64–67
flood resilience: and Australia 78–79;
and United States 78–79; see also
resilience
floods 219; damage in Hobart and
Houston 71; as expensive disaster in
United States 72; and housing tenure
88–89; impacts on demography 88;
as periodic event in Australia 72; risk
mitigation 70–71; riverine 86
Florida: hurricane wind risk 143–153;
hurricane wind risk in 5, 140,
143–153; and ILS 144–145; insurer
direct ILS issuance 147; re/insurance
risk capital 144; underwriting urban
fortunes 145–148, 147
fluid space 2
‘force-placed’ insurance 112–113
Freud, Sigmund 15
Fukushima disaster 169
General Accident 212
General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR) 188–190
geo-engineering: and climate change
15; as insurance 14–18; as insurance
market 14–18; as moral hazard 17;
options as ultrahazardous 18; rogue
18; soil-based 20
Geoengineering: a possible climate
change insurance policy 14
German Climate Change Adaptation
Strategy (2008) 87
Germany 145, 223; and climate change
87; Federal Water Act 86; and flood
hazards 86–88; flood insurance in 88
Giddens, A 157–158, 160
Global 14
Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF)
project 3
governance: climate 151; disaster 50;
finance-based 36; insurantialisation
of 49; mechanism and equitable risk
reduction 83–92; political 25; racialized 10; transformations 45; urban
fire 125–136
government: and EARM 4; flood
resilience discursively constructed by
78–79; and home insurance 70; and
insurance industry 78–79; neo-liberal
223; Poverty Reduction Strategies
Papers (PRSP) 47; and private insurance 120
Government of the Commonwealth of
Dominica (GCD) 41–42; IMF recommendations for 48–49; insurantialisation of governance 49; Structural
Adjustment Programme (SAP) 47
Great Fire of London (1666) 95, 111,
202
Green Building Council of Australia
(GBCA) 133