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Megacities, megarisks : trends and challenges for insurance and risk management / Munich Re Group.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Knowledge series (Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft)Publication details: München : Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft, c2004.Description: 78 p : col. ill., col. maps ; 30 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 368.1 22
LOC classification:
  • HG8026 .M44 2004
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Partial contents:
Big, bigger, megacities -- Risks and opportunities for the insurance industry -- Risk management: the essence for the insurance industry -- Implications for individual classes of insurance -- Financial markets: sensitive seismographs.
Review: This publication takes an in-depth look at the risks from the insurance perspective and discusses insurance solutions with a view, for example, to the expected increase in demand for insurance coverage in megacities. Megacities, i.e. conurbations with ten million or more inhabitants, are exposed not only to natural hazards but also and above all to technological risks, environmental hazards, and terrorist attacks.
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Books Books Australian Emergency Management Library BOOK 368.1 MEG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 900103300

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 78).

Big, bigger, megacities -- Risks and opportunities for the insurance industry -- Risk management: the essence for the insurance industry -- Implications for individual classes of insurance -- Financial markets: sensitive seismographs.

This publication takes an in-depth look at the risks from the insurance perspective and discusses insurance solutions with a view, for example, to the expected increase in demand for insurance coverage in megacities. Megacities, i.e. conurbations with ten million or more inhabitants, are exposed not only to natural hazards but also and above all to technological risks, environmental hazards, and terrorist attacks.

Also available via world wide web. Accessed on 11/05/2010 at:

http://www.preventionweb.net/files/646_10363.pdf

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