Author: United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)
Year of publication: 2018
Available languages: English
Type of assessment: Vulnerability assessment
Details: Risk and Readiness for Insurance Solutions Assessment
Format of assessment: Report
Estimated costs for conducting: No information
Estimated duration of assessment: No information
To be carried out by whom: Multiple actors
Details: Governments, insurers, implementing partners, researchers
Institutional scale of use: National
Assesment to be used by which target audience: State level decision makers
Output: Report
Region of origin: Europe
Developed by which sector: Science
Applied in practice: Partly
Potential geographic coverage: Worlwide (low and lower-middle income countries)
Sectors covered: Biodiversity, Commercial sector, Energy sector, Health sector, Livelihood sector, Water sector
Method used: Index development
Description of methodology: Different indicators integrated into multiple modules resulting in index scores for each component
Risk framework used: No explicit use of risk framework
Risk components incorporated: Hazard
Details: Prevention and insurance
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: Cold spell, Cyclone (including tropical storm, hurricane and typhoon), Drought, Earthquake, Extreme rainfall, Flood, Heatwave, Storm surge, Tsunami, Volcanic eruption
Participatory elements: Yes
Details: Involvement of stakeholders (e.g. politicians) to combine different modules
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: No information
Adressing uncertainty: No
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts, identification of adaptation options
Details: Identification of risks, exposure and vulnerability, determination of coping capacity, prevention and insurance
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Both
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): No
Details: Only EWE
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: No
Usefulness for political purposes: Improved understanding and capacity building for politicians and insurers to deal with risks and prevention
Applied by whom: UNU-EHS
Open access: Yes