Flood Risk Management Policy from an Insurance Perspective
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My work within a research project studying flood-risk management in Hungary is described, with special attention on loss-spreading instruments, mainly insurance. I argue that computer simulation tools are useful in catastrophe policy making. Computer simulation provides a method for estimating the consequences of different potential policy strategies. In decision making processes it also forces the involved parties to maintain a holistic perspective. My research contribution is twofold. I first structured and implemented a flood risk management policy model, capable of estimating the consequences of different insurance strategies for various stakeholders. I then incorporated a micro-level perspective in the flood risk management policy model.
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