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Author(s) Harwood, Jon; Smith, Daniel; Henderson, David

Australia: Building community cyclone resilience through academic and insurance industry partnership

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Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience
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This paper presents research from collaboration between the Cyclone Testing Station (CTS) at James Cook University and insurer Suncorp over the last two years. A key outcome of this work has been an insurance premium reduction program by Suncorp known as the 'Cyclone Resilience Benefit'. Background research conducted for the program by the CTS is discussed and its details are briefly reviewed. Insights from the program delivery to over 14,000 homeowners to date are discussed. Although still in preliminary stages, the development of this industry program based on academic research demonstrates the benefits of strategic partnerships in the field of natural disaster risk mitigation.

Australian Journal of Emergency Management, Volume 31 Issue 4, August 2016, pp. 24-30. This document is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license.​

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Hazards Cyclone, Hurricane and Typhoon
Themes Education and school safety Private sector Insurance and risk transfer
Country and region Australia
Number of pages
7 p.
Publication year
2016

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