Findings from University of Tasmania Provides New Data about Climate Research (Insuring Homes Against Extreme Weather Events: a Systematic Review of the Research)

2021 JUN 04 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Climate Change Daily News -- Investigators publish new report on Science - Climate Research. According to news reporting out of Hobart, Australia, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “Home insurance for extreme weather events is a significant security mechanism not only for individual households but for global finance. As extreme weather events become more frequent and intense, home insurance has been identified by governments as a critical tool for climate adaptation and disaster resilience.”

Financial support for this research came from Australian Research Council.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of Tasmania, “However, the growing research literature on the interactions between household insurance and extreme climatic events has not previously been systematically reviewed. In this paper, we analyse 175 original peer-reviewed empirical research papers on this subject, published between 2009 and 2018. We identify areas of research focus, themes, spatial and temporal patterns, and knowledge gaps, and examine policy implications of these findings. We find that an overall focus on flood insurance leaves unanswered questions about the different insurantial challenges posed by storms and wildfire.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “We suggest existing technocratic and calculative insurance narratives obscure the political and moral assumptions embedded within them, and that these assumptions warrant further investigation in the context of socially legitimate insurance against the impact of extreme weather events.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Insuring Homes Against Extreme Weather Events: a Systematic Review of the Research. Climatic Change, 2021;165. Climatic Change can be contacted at: Springer, Van Godewijckstraat 30, 3311 Gz Dordrecht, Netherlands. (Springer - www.springer.com; Climatic Change - http://www.springerlink.com/content/0165-0009/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Chloe H. Lucas, University of Tasmania, Geog Planning & Spatial Sci, Hobart, Tas, Australia. Additional authors for this research include Kate I. Booth and Carolina Garcia.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-021-03093-1. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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