Opening address -- Sect. 1: The national and international background -- Ch. 1 Residential flood insurance & floodplain management : lessons from the United States -- Ch. 2 Residential flood insurance : lessons from Europe -- Ch. 3 Flood insurance : a backward glance and some current issues -- Ch. 4 The what, where and how much of flooding in Australia -- Sect. 2: Perspectives from the insurance sector -- Ch. 5 Insurability of residential flood losses in Australia - a personal view -- Ch. 6 'What do we want?' flood insurance! 'When do we want it?' Now! -- Ch. 7 Offering flood insurance -- Ch. 8 Consumer understanding of flood insurance -- Sect. 3: Floodplain management, data & information -- Ch. 9 Developments in the mitigation of flood disasters -- Ch.10 Floodplain management and the role of flood insurance -- Ch. 11 Estimating residential flood damage -- Ch. 12 Floods, information and GIS : improving our understanding of flood risk -- Ch. 13 Background data & information for flood insurance -- Sect. 4: Flood releif, community and equity -- Ch. 14 Flood loss and the community -- Ch. 15 Social equity and residential flood insurance -- Ch. 16 Flood insurance : the local government perspective -- Ch. 17 The provision of government flood relief aid -- Ch. 18 A summary of flood insurance issues and options -- Appendix One: A way forward? -- Appendix Two: Workshop participants. d
Summary
Papers given at an expert workshop held at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at the Australian National University in February 2001
Notes
" ... presents the papers given at an expert workshop held at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at the Australian National University in February 2001"--Rear cover
