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Global Risks for 2019? Or a Retrospective of the...
The World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risk Report was released a week ago, in time to generate discussion and provoke debate at the WEF Annual…
Why Long-term NFIP Reform Is a Must
In my recent article in Reactions entitled Why Long-term NFIP Reform is a Must, I looked back at the flood events of 2018 through the lens of…
Will California be “Puerto Rico” or “New Orleans”?
It is now exactly a quarter of a century, on January 17, 1994, since the last significant U.S. earthquake disaster. A previously unknown blind…
U.S. Flood Insurance: Top Five Things You Should...
As we move full steam in to 2019, it is worth remembering that some good progress was made during 2018 with regards to advancing the private…
The Problem of Real and Unreal Tsunamis
Indonesia was beset by disasters in 2018, including two high casualty local tsunamis: in coastal western Sulawesi – impacting the city of Palu…
Climate Change and NCA4 Part Two: Attribution an...
For the first part of Pete Dailey’s blog, Climate Change and NCA4: Part One, click here What’s Climate Change Attribution? Lately, the…