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FeaturesCulture that Avoids Disaster
Six key areas of organisational culture are essential to prevent catastrophic incidents like the Texas City refinery explosion and loss of the space shuttle Columbia. By Scott Berger
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The Long, Wet Summer
The wettest period from May to June since precipitation records began in 1766 brought widespread flooding to parts of England in June and July 2007 and demonstrated the difficulties of managing the risks of rain induced flood. By Alison Craig
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Geohazards and Infrastructure Projects
Infrastructure is an essential element in the immediate, as well as long term, recovery from a catastrophe. Identifying geological risks to infrastructure projects is, thus, an essential part of catastrophe risk management. By Matthew Free and Sara Anderson
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Steel Industry Loss, Reinsurance Gain
The discovery that he definitely did not want a career in the steel industry propelled a young graduate mechanical engineer in North Carolina to New York City and into the arms of the insurance industry. By Lee Coppack
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Reducing Supply Chain Risk from Extreme Events
Businesses today outsource many operations to partners, many of whom may be critically exposed to extreme events and beyond of the control of the firm’s risk management programmes. By Marc Lehmann and Kenneth Travers
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Major Flood in Central London: Can It Really Happen?
Summer floods in England highlighted how even moderately sized events can cause widespread damage and disruption, but a similar size flood in London would have been far more costly. By Jane Toothil
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Unchecked Risks That Can Lead to Catastrophe
Asset management, planned maintenance and procurement have the potential to create disaster if are not treated with the respect they deserve. By Tony Prior
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Understanding the Vulnerability of China’s Buildings to Earthquake Risk
Earthquake engineers and catastrophe modellers have considerable data on the relative vulnerability of different construction materials, structural systems and building heights to seismic hazards. However, other factors that affect building stability in an earthquake are more difficult to assess, particularly in emerging markets. By Jayanta Guin and Tao Lai
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How Planning for Terrorist Attacks Worked for Hurricanes
Major incident training put in place by a large commercial property investor because of terrorist attacks proved its value in the face of US hurricanes. By John Smith
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Transforming Science into Business Application
David Bresch is head of the global atmospheric perils group within the catastrophe perils unit of Swiss Re and serves as chief modeller for all perils. He is also climate advisor to the board of Swiss Re. He talks to Catastrophe Risk Management about how science can support reinsurance. By ...
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A Healthy Appetite for Insurance Risk
Capital markets’ investment participation in insurance risk continues to grow at a remarkable rate. By Cory Anger
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A Research Agenda for London Flood
More attention needs to be given to the management of flood risk, specifically the role of insurance in this process. By Professor Edmund Penning-Rowsell
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Reflections in New Orleans
From a distance the roads look unremarkably. There are few cars, but it is the middle of the day. Closer up there is clearly something wrong.
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Real time mapping
Drawing on the detailed graphic rendering of programs such as Google Earth, new mapping tools can illustrate property assets at risk in real time. By Andrew Leslie
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Port security risk management
NBC weapons seeping across the US border, and the potentially catastrophic result, represent the ultimate risk for US federal, state and local authorities. By Christopher Rissetto and Jason Matechak
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Hard lessons from windstorms
Ports and transport facilities suffer badly in windstorms but the experience from major storms like Katrina can provide lessons to reduce future losses. By Ian Lush
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Loss prevention from the ground up
Getting loss prevention experts involved early reduces the risk of project disaster and delay. By Martin Vinkenfluegel
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Windstorm Kyrill: A glimpse into the future?
Windstorm Kyrill is a reminder that windstorm is a real threat to insurers and reinsurers in Europe. By Julian Alovisi, Claire Souch and Jane Toothill
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Understanding IT system failures
The failure of an organisation's IT network can be debilitating, and it is a risk that affects almost all companies, across all industry sectors. By Shaun Cooper
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Lighthill Risk Network: a community of expertise
April 2007 sees the launch of the Lighthill Risk Network, an international community that will link business and research. By Paul Wilson and Peter Taylor
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