Zum Interesse an einer Versicherung von Sturmschäden im Schweizer Wald | On the demand for an insurance against storm damage in Swiss forests

Holthausen, Niels; Baur, Priska

doi:10.3188/szf.2004.0426

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“…This risk is at the origin of this literature on forest insurance since the seminal papers [45,47,49,50] focus on wildfire insurance in the U.S. and Japan. However, storms are also largely studied, especially in Europe [18,22,33,53], and hurricanes in Honduras [43]. Pine beetles are rarely studied [27].…”

Section: The Risks Considered: From Wildfire In Us To Storm In Europementioning

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“…The first articles in the database are [45] and [47]. However, the literature also covers other countries such as Spain [23], Italy [25], China [21,29,36], Sweden [44], Slovakia [8,46], Germany [16,33], Ghana [38], Brazil [24,40], Portugal [17], Honduras [42,43], Japan [50], France [19,22,30], Switzerland [35,53] and New Zealand [6]. At the continental level, 13 articles related to Europe, 4 to Asia, 9 to North America, 4 to South America, 1 to Oceania and 1 to Africa.…”

Section: The Countries Where Forest Insurance Is An Issue: Europe ...mentioning

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Forest Insurance for Natural Events: An Overview by Economists

Brunette

Couture²

2023

Forests

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Forest insurance exists for more than a century in lots of countries around the world. Currently, it is put forward as a recommended tool to finance resilience and adaptation towards climate change. However, little synthetic knowledge exists on forest insurance, although this seems to be a prerequisite for using insurance as an adaptation tool. This article aims at providing an overview of the current economics literature on the topic of forest insurance. More precisely, the objectives of this study are to carry out a review of the literature on this topic, to produce a bibliometric overview of knowledge on this issue, and thus to highlight scientific fronts. For that purpose, we propose a literature review. We collected 38 articles published in English between 1928 and 2021. We provide the following bibliometric information: journals, evolution over time of the publications, authors and co-citations network and analysis of the keywords. We also propose to synthesize the methods used, the various issues of interest, the risks considered and the countries where the studies were conducted. We show that an article on forest insurance has a high probability of being recent (after 2000) and of being published in the journal Forest Policy and Economics. In addition, it is highly probable that it will identify some determinants of insurance demand and that it will deal with fire risk in the U.S. or storm risk in Europe. Noting a small scientific community and a low number of publications, we identified seven fronts of science related to methods and data, new risks and uncertainties, public policies and forest insurance, and openness and the international dimension.

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Section: The Risks Considered: From Wildfire In Us To Storm In Europementioning

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Section: The Countries Where Forest Insurance Is An Issue: Europe ...mentioning

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Forest Insurance for Natural Events: An Overview by Economists

Brunette

Couture²

2023

Forests

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“…Some scholars found that the age and education level of farmers had no significant influence on their willingness to participate in the insurance program [11], while some scholars also found that the willingness of farmers to participate in the insurance program would increase with the decrease of age and the increase of education level [57]. Holthausen and Baurfound [58] that the family income structure had a significant impact on the participation of farmers in the insurance. When the agricultural income was not the main economic source of the family, the farmers were not willing to buy agricultural insurance.…”

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“…Total household income has a positive influence on fishery insurance participation. Holthausen and Baur [58] found that household income structure has a significant influence on farmers' participation behavior. The production specialization, measured by the proportion of income from mariculture to the total income has a positive influence on the participation of aquaculture insurance.…”

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Systemic Risks of Climate Events and Households’ Participation in Mariculture Mutual Insurance: A Case Study of Shrimp Producers in Zhejiang Province

Han

Jiang

2019

Sustainability

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Mariculture is playing an important role in food safety, acting as strong complement to marine fishery. As a typical capital intensive and high-risk sector, mariculture mutual insurance is important for ensuring the stability and sustainability of mariculture due to the inertia of private insurance, it is necessary to examine factors for low household participation in marine fishery mutual insurance to promote the healthy development of marine insurance. Based on the field surveyed data of mariculture shrimp producers in Zhejiang Province, this study aims to examine the determinants underlying households’ participation in mariculture mutual insurance. Based on logistic model, we find out that climate risks, environmental risks and technical risks have seriously hindered the development of food security and fisheries in Zhejiang Province. In addition, farmers’ insurance involvement mainly depends on the individual characteristics of the farmers: whether used to go out to work, perception of burden level of premium and insurance awareness; family characteristics of fish farmers: total household income, and unpaid loan; and production characteristics: professional level, mariculture area and whether sea waters registration. Meanwhile, external factors, including organizations available for insurance participation, impact of national insurance subsidies, policy support and disasters on the aquaculture area. Corresponding risk management measures are urgently needed for the sustainable development of mariculture.

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Institutional change in the forest sector: trust and mental models

Schlüter¹,

Koch²

2009

Eur J Forest Res

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The paper looks, from a perspective of institutional economics, at a process of change of rules and organisational practises in the forestry sector, particularly drawing on a case study of small-scale private forest owners in the Allgäu, Bavaria. It is argued that the process of change may be initiated by the traditional factors mentioned by the various theories of institutional change (technological change, changes in preferences, changes in relative factor prices, etc.). However, the direction of change observed in the short run cannot be understood with the help of efficiency theories of institutional change. Denzau and North (1994) extended those theories by introducing mental models as explanatory variables. Mental models are the interpretations (half-baked theories) people use to understand their environment. As observed, mental models play a crucial role in determining the direction of change. However, the question that arose was: what determines the selection of mental models in an uncertain environment? It is observed that trust plays an important role. Therefore, an extension of the Douglas and North theory is suggested.

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Zum Interesse an einer Versicherung von Sturmschäden im Schweizer Wald | On the demand for an insurance against storm damage in Swiss forests

Cited by 10 publications

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Forest Insurance for Natural Events: An Overview by Economists

Forest Insurance for Natural Events: An Overview by Economists

Systemic Risks of Climate Events and Households’ Participation in Mariculture Mutual Insurance: A Case Study of Shrimp Producers in Zhejiang Province

Institutional change in the forest sector: trust and mental models

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