Section 1: The institutional perspective on national catastrophe risk management
1 'Building Effective Catastrophe Insurance Programmes at the Country Level: A Risk Management Perspective' Eugene N. Gurenko
2 'Catastrophe Risk Retention and Catastrophe Pools' Rodney Lester
Section 2: Catastrophe risk measurement
3 'Catastrophe Risk Models for Asia from a User Perspective' George Walker
4 'The Application of Probabilistic Earthquake Risk Models in Managing Earthquake Insurance Risks in Turkey' Dennis Kuzak, Ken Campbell and Mahmoud Khater
5 'Quantifying the Catastrophe Exposures from Cyclones, Earthquakes and Floods in 4 Indian States' Adityam Krovvidi
Section 3: Risk reduction vs. risk Transfer: which strategy works best?
6 'The National Flood Insurance Programme: A Model for Risk Management' Anthony S. Lowe
7 'Flood Risk - Optimising a National Insurance Programme' Charles Scawthorn
8 'Integrating Mitigation with Risk Transfer Instruments' Howard Kunreuther, George Deodatis, and Andrew Smyth
9 'Development Enhancing Risk Management' Caroline Clarke and Neil A. Doherty
10 'New Approaches to Promote Disaster Risk Mitigation: Lessons learned in the Europe and Central Asia Region' Christoph Pusch
Section 4: Public-private partnerships in catastrophe risk management
11 'Retrocession vs. Alternative Markets in Managing a Reinsurer's Accumulations' Andrew Castaldi
12 'Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund: Lessons and Experience' Jack E. Nicholson
13 'Insuring the Uninsurable : The French Natural Catastrophe Insurance System' Suzanne Vallet
14 'A Reinsurer's Perspective on the Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool' Johann-Adrian von Lucius
15 'Government as Reinsurer of Last Resort: The Japanese Experience' Yuichi Takeda
16 'The Viability and Likely Pricing of 'Cat Bonds' for Developing Countries' Morton Lane
Section 5: Managing moral hazard and product distribution costs: key operational challenges
17 'Evidence of Market Response to Coverage Value in Some Major Catastrophe Insurance Programmes' John Seo
18 'Self-Insurance Funds in Mexico' Hector Ibarra
19 'Providing Access to Catastrophic Insurance Coverage for the Poor: Key Factors for Success' Douglas Lacey
