Abstract

Recent natural disasters in Australia have prompted some calls for the establishment of national natural disaster insurance program to address apparent problems of availability and affordability in the existing private insurance market. We first examine the incidence and impact of natural Disasters during a recent period and find that although there is strong evidence of...

Vermorken et al. (2012) introduce a new measure of diversication, the Diversication Delta based on the empirical entropy. The entropy as a measure of uncertainty has successfully been used in several frameworks and takes into account the uncertainty related to the entire statistical distribution and not just the rst two moments of a distribution. However...

This paper addresses critical gaps in existing research by taking a ‘practice approach’ to how we might better support climate justice at the metropolitan scale in Australia.

NCCARF’s evidence-based Policy Guidance Briefs address key challenges to effectively adapting Australia to a variable and changing climate, providing high-level policy advice designed for use by policy makers at Commonwealth and State level. This Policy Guidance Brief explores the support of decision-making for adaptation, through provision of frameworks, knowledge and criteria for performance evaluation and...