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  • Quantifying changes of wind speed distributions in the historical record of Atlantic tropical cyclone.
  • TolioKazanRisk - Modelling Volcanic Risk in Japan
  • The 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission released its Interim Report on Monday the 17th August
  • Risk Frontiers' Seminar Series 2009
  • Four Challenges for Emergency Management in Australia
  • Risk Frontiers' Seminar Series 2009
  • The Korumburra Earthquake Sequence - What Next?
  • Do We Need Better Predictions to Adapt to a Changing Climate?
  • Attributing Blame in the Black Saturday Wildfires: February 7, 2009
  • Energy Conservation and Thermal Comfort
  • In memory of Laraine Hunter
  • Advances in tropical cyclone science
  • What is ENSO and how predictable is it?
  • Volcanic hazard in the Asia-Pacific region
  • Modelling future climates: where are we and what's next

July 2008
Volume 7 Issue 4

  • Assessing the Benefits of Improved Wind Loading Construction Standards in Tropical Cyclone Prone Areas of Australia.
  • Note for your Diary: Risk Frontiers Seminar Series 2008
  • Natural Hazard Risk Profiles: MapData Sciences Web Services
  • One Man's Reactions: Observations after the Hunter River Flood of June 2007
  • Denial, Torpor, Dissent and Forgetting Explored
  • Local knowledge and gender: re-evaluating the 1967 Hobart bushfire fatalities

September 2007
Volume 7 Issue 1

  • An Updated Earthquake Loss Model for Australia
  • The Cost of Fire in Australia
  • Post-event Claims Inflation (PECI)
  • Wind and Building Damage Issues: Understanding the critical components
  • New product targets individual properties
  • Risk-informed Decision Making?
  • Bushfire and Global Climate Change
  • HailAUS V.4 now available
  • Risk Frontiers Seminar Series 2007

March 2007
Volume 6 Issue 3

  • Climate Change and Carbon Trading 101
  • Rapid Response Insurance Loss Estimates for Australian Cyclones
  • "Unknown knowns and known unknowables"

September 2006
Volume 6 Issue 1

  • Pound for Pound: Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change
  • Volcanoes – A Neglected Hazard?
  • Risky Business
    – Do Refined Risk Measures Require Government Insurance Programs?
  • An Examination of Fire Deaths During the last 100 Years: Implications for the ‘Stay or Go’ Policy and the Insurance Industry
  • Katherine Flood - April 2006
  • Natural Disaster Losses and Climate Change: An Australian Perspective
  • Indexing the Insurance Council of Australia Natural Disaster Event List. What would an event cost today?
  • CyclAUS
  • A Future Pandemic
  • Introducing Kat Haynes
  • Earthquake Forecasting
  • CyclAUS - Risk Frontiers' Australian Tropical Cyclone Model
  • Quantifying at-risk Australian addresses vulnerable to sea level rise and tsunamis
  • The impact of land cover change on storms in the Sydney Basin
  • Risk Frontiers Current Product List
  • Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Analysis
  • Introducing: Susanna Jenkins & Rahul Nakhasi
  • Weak Ground Motiions from Large Surface Faulting Earthquakes
  • The Benfield Research Fellow on Volcanic Hazards
  • December 26, 2004 Sumatra Earthquake and Tsunami
  • Welcome to Dr Paul Somerville
  • Expected Shortfall
  • Natural Hazard Risk Ratings
  • How many bushfire prone addresses are there in Australia?
  • Tsunami - the Underrated Hazard
  • A Volcanic Loss Model for Auckland
  • Terrorism - Natural Versus Manmade Disasters
  • FireAUS - Bushfire Relative Risk Ratings
  • Relative Risk Ratings for Local Government Areas
  • Some Issues Arising from the New Zealand Floods
  • Return on investment in FloodAUS for managing flood risk
  • Revelations
  • Hail Damage on the Radar
  • Return on the Catastrophe
  • 2003 Canberra Bushfires: What can we learn?
  • Estimating Sydney PMLs - which is the most important natural hazard?
  • Defining area at risk and its effect on loss estimation
  • Catastrophe Modelling - Portfolio Probable Maximum Losses
  • Risk-adjusted Premiums - Lessons from Flood Risk Modelling
  • Ashes to Ashes - Volcanic Risk in Auckland
  • Fact, Fiction and Flooding? Effects of Disclosure on Housing Markets
  • The Catastrophe Game: Earthquake Risk Modelling
  • FloodAUS: one million addresses and rising
  • The Business of Warning
  • Risk Frontiers - NHRC
  • Residential building damage in Rabaul 1994
  • Soggy Business - commercial flood damage in Kepsey, 2001
  • A 100-year Rain - RACQ losses in a Brisbane Storm
  • Eye Spy - the identification of building features using high-resolution imagery
  • AAD - Average Annual Damage or Any Answer Do?
  • Risk decision-making in natural hazards bushfire as example
  • The February 2001 Lismore Flood
  • Ground Zonation scale and earthquake loss estimation: A Sydney example
  • ICA Zones - Relative Risk Ratings
  • Building Damage in the Cloncurry Flood, 1997
  • FloodAUS - a tool for property-by-property flood risk assessment
  • What's the Damage
  • HailAUS and Portfolio Optimisation
  • Risk Rating for PerilAUS Version 2
  • Natural Perils in Australia - Maps and Risk Rating. PerilAUS II
  • Pricing hail losses: extrapolation of past losses versus stochastic model
  • Version 2: hail loss model for Sydney with an experimental ENSO cycle
  • Damage index 1999
  • Join the Mainstream
  • A Hail Loss model for Sydney & Brisbane
  • The April 1999 Sydney Hailstorm
  • The importance of a Good Database
  • Post-Disaster Needs Assessment?
  • A GIS-MCE Approach to Natural Hazards Risk Assessment
  • FIRM - Flood Inundation Risk Model
  • Perils by Postcode
  • Deaths & ENSO: Fate, Chance or Change?
  • Dissection of a Dent: Modelling Motor Vehicle Hail Losses
  • Inundated by Uncertainty: Flood Risk in Inland NSW
  • Building Materials Study
  • Adaption to Climate Change - a Role for the Insurance Industry
  • GIS and Natural Hazard Loss Assessment
  • Damage Scales
  • Nature's Tax: the East Gippsland floods
  • Natural Hazards in Australia: Who ultimately bears the cost?
  • Murphy's Law or Within the possible thresholds? - Impacts of the 1997-1998 ENSO in North-Eastern Australia
  • The Natural Hazards Society
  • Perils, Postcodes and Risk Accumulation Zones
  • An Integrated Approach to Bushfire Risk Assessment
  • Earthquake Damage Analysis - A Joint Approach
  • Child of ANUFLOOD