{"id":1291,"date":"2014-10-27T06:34:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T06:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2014-10-28T16:34:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T16:34:47","slug":"webcast-now-available-for-noontime-seminar-on-catastrophe-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/2014\/10\/27\/webcast-now-available-for-noontime-seminar-on-catastrophe-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Webcast Now Available for Noontime Seminar on Catastrophe Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Is This (Our) Risk? The Science and Politics of Catastrophe Insurance<\/strong>
\nby Jessica Weinkle, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado Boulder<\/p>\n

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The title of this presentation implies two issues:\u00a0 Is this risk? Is this our risk?\u00a0 The answers are not straightforward.\u00a0 These questions form a basis for my research and serve to guide the narrative of this presentation.\u00a0 The presentation subtitle, ‘The science and politics of catastrophe insurance,’ describe the processes by which society comes to answer the two questions in the context of natural hazards.\u00a0 Yet, often the process of negotiating agreement about risk for the purpose of insurance is veiled by technical jargon, appeal to expert knowledge, and issue conflation.\u00a0 This muddies trade-offs facing the public and policymakers when they seek effective decision making for improved management of society’s risk and public insurance programs.\u00a0 This presentation aims to accomplish three tasks: 1) Illustrate my research activities for the past several years at CSTPR and ICAT; 2) Present current issues I am working on at the interface of risk, insurance, and public policy; and 3) Place ongoing and future research into a broad social, financial and democratic context.<\/p>\n

Biography: In 2013, Jessica earned her doctorate in environmental studies from the University of Colorado Boulder.\u00a0 For the past year, she has worked as a postdoc at the CSTPR and in partnership with ICAT, a private catastrophe insurance company in Boulder.\u00a0 Her research focuses on the interface of risk, insurance and public policy with a particular emphasis in the construction and use of hurricane catastrophe models. In January she will begin work as an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in the department of Public and International Affairs. Jessica also holds a Master of Arts in Climate and Society from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science in Zoology from the University of Texas at Austin.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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