Expensive hurricanes insurance leaving consumers exposed

As the 2009 hurricane season arrives, many homeowners are finding insurance is either more expensive, or harder to get as insurance carriers try to limit their exposure in high-risk areas. READ MORE

OPINION: HAZUS.org believes this is an area that HAZUS-MH could be used to develop community wide risk assessments to help better educate the public.

Too often home owner insurance decisions are based on a poor understanding of the risk (a function of potential loss and probability of occurrence) and more on short term economics or fear based on media hype.

2009 - Global Assessment Report

Development efforts are increasingly at risk. A faltering global economy, food and energy insecurity, conflict, global climate change, declining ecosystems, extreme poverty, and the threat of epidemics seriously challenge progress towards improving social welfare and economic growth in many developing countries. The Report is the first biennial global assessment of disaster risk reduction prepared in the context of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR). MORE INFO


RELATED: 2008 saw a marked increase in the number of deaths and economic losses compared to the 2000-2007 yearly average. MORE INFO