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impact of
insured losses from
Mississippi Gulf Coast and
New Orleans and
policy innovation and
recovery from
reinsurance/actuarial value after (table)
Hurricane Rita, reinsurance/actuarial value after(table)
Hurricane Wilma, reinsurance/actuarial value after(table)
Hurricanes
damage from
fiscal deficits and
reinsurance against
risk for
tourism economy and
Incentives
Inconvenient Truth, An (Gore)
Influenza pandemics
Information
asymmetric
as commodity
economic assumption of
interpreting/manipulating
limited
meaning of
measuring acquisition of
processing
seeking
value of
Infrastructure Management and Extreme Events Program
Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA)
Institutions, reinventing
Insurance
accident
adequate
auto
benefits/costs/challenges of
buying
car rental
catastrophe
contracts
crop
decisions about
deposit
development assistance and
disaster assistance and
earthquake
efficiency and
excessive
fire
flight
government
health
index-based
homeowners
Insurance (continued)
hurricane
international support for
life
long-term
low-deductible
mitigation and
mortgage
municipal bond
prevention and
pricing
pricing (risk-based)
principles
private
public
relief and
risk and
subsidized
terrorism
underinsurance
unemployment
vouchers
Insurance Assistance Facility
Insurance contracts
long-term
short-term
Insurer solvency, thoughts on
Integrated Assessment Models
Interdependence
growth of
weak links and
Interdependent security (IDS)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Intervention
Intuition
moral
Investment
“Irrational Economist, The” conference
Irrationality
Jaffee, Dwight
Johnson, Eric
Johnson, Lyndon
environmental issues and
Johnson, Steven
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
Judgment
Just-in-time society
Just, Richard
Kahneman, Daniel
Kasperson, Roger
Keelin, Tom
Keeney, Ralph
Kennedy, John F.
Keynes, John Maynard
Kierstead, Phillip
Kinsey, Alfred
Klein, Robert
Kleindorfer, Paul
Knoch, Daria
Knowledge, counterproductive effects of
Kousky, Carolyn
Krishna, Hari
Kuhn, Thomas
Kunreuther, Howard
work of
Kurz, Mordecai
Kyoto Protocol
La-ornual, Dolchai
Labor Day Hurricane
Langer, Ellen
Lateral orbitofrontal cortex (LOFC) (fig.)
Lathrop, John
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
Learning
Legitimation
decision making and
Lehman Brothers
Lesion data, linking(fig.)
Liberman, Nira
LIBOR OIS
Lifesaving
Lifton, Robert J.
“Limits of Growth, The” (Club of Rome)
Lincoln, Abraham
Linnerooth-Bayer, Joanne
Liquidity (financial)
Liquified natural gas (LNG)
Lockerbie disaster. See also Pan Am 103 catastrophe
Loma Prieta
Losses
disaster
distributions
expected
potential
reducing
Lotteries(fig.)
Love Canal
Low-probability, high-consequence (lp-hc) events
Maastricht Treaty
Macroeconomics
Malta Airlines. See also Lockerbie disaster; Pan Am 103 catastrophe
Markets
catastrophe risk
financial
insurance
mortgage
private
regulation of
uncertainty in
See also Stock markets
Markus, Hazel
Marx, Karl
Mass tragedies
Massachusetts Lottery Commission
Matheson, Jim
Mechler, Reinhard
Media
disaster politics and
discourses
intervention and
natural disasters and (fig.)
Mental models
Merton, Robert
Michel-Kerjan, Erwann
Microsoft Research
Mileti, Dennis
Mill, James
Mill, John Stuart
Miller, Louis
Minow, Newton
Miracles, definitions of
Misinterpretations
Mississippi River
flooding of
Missouri River
flooding of
Mitigation . See also Prevention
adaptation and
cost-effective
insurance and
investment in
measures
need for
public policy on
risk
scientific knowledge about
strategies
structural/nonstructural
underinvestment in
Mother-child relationships
Mullainathan, Sendhil
Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII)
National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)
National Hurricane Center
National Park Service, Roosevelt and
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Natural disasters
coverage rates on(fig.)
deaths