Descripción del proyecto
Adaptación y resiliencia ante un clima cambiante
Las catástrofes naturales, exacerbadas por el cambio climático, suponen una amenaza económica cada vez mayor. Las evaluaciones de riesgos de los seguros convencionales suelen centrarse en riesgos únicos y pasan por alto la compleja interacción de los riesgos múltiples influidos por los cambios climáticos. Además, olvidan el papel de los procesos de adaptación humana en la reducción del riesgo. El equipo del proyecto INSUREADAPT, financiado por el CEI, desarrollará evaluaciones de riesgos climáticos múltiples para los seguros. Emplea modelos basados en agentes para comprender cómo las personas toman decisiones racionales de adaptación limitadas, teniendo en cuenta las interacciones sociales. A través de encuestas en tiempo real y experimentos económicos, el equipo de INSUREADAPT se propone elaborar acuerdos de seguros innovadores. Estos acuerdos animarán a los asegurados a adaptarse a la evolución de los riesgos climáticos combinando la cobertura financiera con estrategias adaptadas, como la comunicación, incentivos como franquicias y descuentos en las primas, y estímulos.
Objetivo
Natural disasters cause substantial economic losses, which are expected to increase due to climate change. The insurance sector plays a central role in managing these risks. It is thus imperative that insurers accurately assess and address climate risks.
Risk assessment methods currently fall short in accurately understanding climate risks because they focus on single hazards (e.g. floods) instead of correlated multi-hazard risks (e.g. windstorms and floods) affected by climate change. They also insufficiently account for human climate adaptation processes leading to risk reduction, which are characterized by bounded rationality and social interaction. Furthermore, additional insights are needed into how to design insurance arrangements that address climate change and stimulate policyholders to adapt to multi-hazard climate risks by limiting natural disaster damage.
This project aims to design insurance arrangements to enhance policyholders adaptation to multi-hazard climate risks by combining financial coverage with comprehensive strategies for stimulating risk reduction. Its interdisciplinary approach goes beyond the state-of-the-art by creating novel multi-hazard climate risk assessments for insurance and by developing agent-based models (ABMs) that account for boundedly rational human adaptation decisions and social interaction. The ABMs evaluate natural disaster insurance arrangements for EU countries with diverse risk contexts and assess strategies for stimulating adaptation by policyholders, based on input from behavioural economic studies. Repeated and real-time surveys and economic experiments will identify comprehensive strategies for triggering behavioural change to stimulate adaptation to the multitude of climate change risks individuals face. These strategies linked to (publicprivate) insurance combine communication on risk and risk reduction measures, insurance incentives (e.g. deductibles, premium discounts), and nudges.
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitución de acogida
1081 HV Amsterdam
Países Bajos