Barriers to Insurance as a Flood Risk Management Tool: Evidence from a Survey of Property Owners

Abstract By using risk-adjusted price signals to transfer responsibility for property-level flood protection and recovery from governments to property owners, flood insurance represents a key tenet of the flood risk management (FRM) paradigm. The Government of Canada has worked with insurers to intr...

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Main Authors: Jason Thistlethwaite, Daniel Henstra, Craig Brown, Daniel Scott
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-05-01
Series:International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-020-00272-z