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Uncertainty and Unknown Unknowns
At today’s inaugural ‘Catastrophe Risk Management & Modelling Australasia 2013’ in Sydney, the focus is on model uncertainty, unknown…
TRIA Renewal #3: No Cake Walk
The debate over whether the Act should be extended a third time is likely to be acrimonious given partisan divides over financial legislation…
Diving into Flood Risk
Central Europe is still recovering from the massive flooding that followed one of the wettest months of May in recorded history for this…
Saving Lives with a Cat Model
On July 18 and 19, I was part of a two-day workshop in New York organized by UN agencies, and involving international NGOs and government aid…
Ultra-liquefaction
The February 22, 2011 earthquake in Christchurch New Zealand was notable for the severity of liquefaction in the Eastern part of the city. So…
Arguing Over the Slab
The production of slab has accelerated over the last decade. I visited coastal slab in Grand Cayman after Ivan, wandered through whole…