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来源类型	Article
规范类型	其他
DOI	10.1007/s11027-010-9232-3
	Financial adaptation to disaster risk in the European Union: Identifying roles for the public sector.
	Aakre A; Banaszak I; Mechler R; Ruebbelke D; Wreford A; Kalirai H
发表日期	2010
出处	Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 15 (7): 721-736
出版年	2010
语种	英语
摘要	Increasing losses from weather related extreme events coupled with limited coping capacity suggest a need for strong adaptation commitments, of which public sector responses to adjustments to actual and expected climate stimuli are key. The European Commission has started to address this need in the emerging European Union (EU) climate adaptation strategy; yet, a specific rationale for adaptation interventions has not clearly been identified, and the economic case for adaptation to extremes remains vague. Basing the diagnosis on economic welfare theory and an empirical analysis of the current EU and member states' roles in managing disaster risk, we discuss how and where the public sector may intervene for managing climate variability and change. We restrict our analysis to financial disaster management, a domain of adaptation intervention, which is of key concern for the EU adaptation stratey. We analyse three areas of public sector interventions, supporting national insurance systems, providing compensation to the affected post event as well as intergovernmental loss sharing through the EU solidarity fund, according to the three government functions of allocation, distribution, and stabilization suggested by welfare theory, and suggest room for improvement.
主题	Risk and Vulnerability (RAV)
关键词	Welfare economics Adaptation Disaster risk management Risk financing Insurance
URL	http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/9247/
来源智库	International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/129134
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Aakre A,Banaszak I,Mechler R,et al. Financial adaptation to disaster risk in the European Union: Identifying roles for the public sector.. 2010.