Proceedings of the EuroConference on
Global Change and
Catastrophe Risk Management:
Flood Risks in Europe

IIASA Laxenburg, Austria 6–9 June 1999

Papers

The papers presented at the conference are being collected by Aniello Amendola and Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, IIASA, Risk Modeling and Policy. With the purpose of quickly giving information on the presentations at the conference and keeping records of them, full papers or summaries are being converted to Adobe PDF format and put on the web as soon as they are submitted by the authors.

I. Climate Change and Flood Risks in Europe

The Effect of Global Warming on Rainfall and Temperature in an Alpine Catchment
Hans Peter Nachtnebel

Relationships Between Extreme Convective Events and Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies in Coastal Regions of the Mediterranean
Giampiero Maracchi, Alfonso Crisci, Bernardo Gozzini, Franceso Meneguzzo

The Risk of Flood Events over Time
Zdzislaw Kaczmarek

Commentary: Climate and Catastrophic Weather Events
Gordon J. MacDonald

Flood Trends and Global Change
Thomas Loster

Contribution to the discussion: Catastrophes, Climate
Change and Coverage
Andrew F. Dlugolecki

II. Integrated Flood Management

1997 Flood Emergency In Poland: A Lesson For Education And Training Programmes
Janusz Kindler

Integrated River Management and Flood Risk
Paul Samuels

Adapting to Climate Change: A Case Study on Riverine Flood Risks in the Netherlands
Richard S.J. Tol, Nicolien van der Grijp, Xander Olsthoorn and Peter van der Werff

Some General Comments on Flood Forecasting
Michael Bruen

Impacts of Land Use and Climate Change on Water Resources: Examples from China
David A. Wiberg

III. Modeling for Flood Risk Assessment and Management

Simulating Flood Events In Transnational European Catchments
A. De Roo, G. Schmuck, F. Somma and D. Price

Modeling Flood Events in the U.S.
Charles Scawthorn

Modeling Equity in Natural Disaster Risks under Multiple Misfortune Levels
Hiroyuki Tamura

IV. Insurance and Risk Burden Sharing

The Financial Management of Catastrophic Flood Risks in Emerging Economy Countries
Howard C. Kunreuther and Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer

Flood Insurance Systems in Selected European Countries
Caroline Van Schoubroeck

Commentary: A Reinsurance View of Flood Risk
Ivo Menzinger

Contribution to the discussion: Integrated Insurance
Andrew F Dlugolecki

Estimating Natural Catastrophic Risk Exposure and the Benefits of Risk Transfer in Developing Countries
Landis MacKellar, Paul K. Freeman, and Tatiana Ermolieva

Commentary:
Thomas C Schelling

Customizing Reinsurance and Cat Bonds for Natural Hazard Risks
David Croson and Howard Kunreuther

Sovereign Cat Bonds and Infrastructure Project Financing
David Croson and Andreas Richter

Infrastructure, Natural Disasters, and Poverty
Paul K. Freeman

Infrastructure in Developing Countries: Risk and Protection
Paul K. Freeman and Georg Ch. Pflug

Employing Catastrophe Loss Modelling to Price and Manage European Flood Risk
Robert Muir-Wood

What is the Potential for Catastrophe Risk Transfer Mechanism for Use by Governments in Taiwan?
Daigee Shaw