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Profiteering from Disaster: Why Planners Need to be Paying More Attention to Insurance

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Insurance is overlooked in planning practice and research. Focusing on house and contents insurance in Australia’s disaster-prone areas, I describe why the impacts of insurance availability and pricing on urban form requires greater attention from planners. With increasing climate change-related risks, the growing influence of insurance and insurers is exacerbating social and financial inequity: fostering disadvantaged enclaves and protected pockets of wealth, and sustaining insurer profits. I call for the better integration of insurance within planning, particularly a more considered and careful mobilization of insurance in disaster preparation. I present four research questions for advancing planning in disaster-prone urban areas.

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  • Kate Booth, 2018. "Profiteering from Disaster: Why Planners Need to be Paying More Attention to Insurance," Planning Practice & Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(2), pages 211-227, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cpprxx:v:33:y:2018:i:2:p:211-227
    DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2018.1430458
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    1. Chloe H. Lucas & Kate I. Booth & Carolina Garcia, 2021. "Insuring homes against extreme weather events: a systematic review of the research," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 165(3), pages 1-21, April.
    2. Eakin, Hallie & Keele, Svenja & Lueck, Vanessa, 2022. "Uncomfortable knowledge: Mechanisms of urban development in adaptation governance," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 159(C).

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