April 2012
Volume 11 Issue 4

• Aftermath of the 2011 Tohoku, Japan Earthquake
• Hunter Leigh Scholarship

March 2012
Volume 11 Issue 3

• Updated normalisation of the Insurance Council of Australia Natural Disaster Event List: 1967-2011
• Risk Frontiers Multi-Peril Workbench Version 2.0
• "Bertolaso Investigated for culpable homicide"
• Hunter Leigh Scholarship

Decemberr 2011
Volume 11 Issue 2

• The use of crowd sourcing for gathering information about natural disasters.
• Floods and land-use planning - a brief Australian history of town relocations.

September 2011
Volume 11 Issue 1

• The Use of Rainfall Information in Dam Operations:  Uncertainty or Ignorance?
• Risk Frontiers' Response to the National Disaster Insurance Review (NDIR)

July 2011
Volume 10 Issue 4

• Peer-Reviewed Exchange on Australian Bushfire Damage and Climate Change.
• Scientists indicted on Manslaughter Charges for Failure to Predict L'Aquila Earthquake
• Risk Frontiers Seminar Series 2011 - 9th November
• Risk Frontiers Multi-Peril Workbench

April 2011
Volume 10 Issue 3

• Flood management: a 12-point plan for Australia
• Christchurch Earthquake February 22, 2011
• When will anthropogenic climate change signals be detected in US tropical cyclone loss data?

January 2011
Volume 10 Issue 2

• The 2011 Brisbane Flood: A Preliminary Analysis

August 2010
Volume 10 Issue 1

• Geoengineering to Counteract Anthropogenic Climate Change
• Risk Frontiers Seminar Series 2010
• Tribute to Roy Leigh

June 2010
Volume 9 Issue 4

• Cyclone Tracy and the Australian Insurance Industry - The Silver Lining - Part II

March 2010
Volume 9 Issue 3

• Cyclone Tracy and the Australian Insurance Industry - The Silver Lining

December 2009
Volume 9 Issue 2

• Quantifying changes of wind speed distributions in the historical record of Atlantic tropical cyclones.

September 2009
Volume 9 Issue 1

• 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

July, 2009
Volume 8 Issue 4

• Four Challenges for Emergency Management in Australia
• Risk Frontiers' Seminar Series 2009

April, 2009
Volume 8 Issue 3

• The Korumburra Earthquake Sequence - What Next?
• Do We Need Better Predictions to Adapt to a Changing Climate?

January 2009
Volume 8 Issue 2

• Attributing Blame in the Black Saturday Wildfires: February 7, 2009
• Energy Conservation and Thermal Comfort
• In memory of Laraine Hunter

October 2008
Volume 8 Issue 1

• 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

March 2008
Volume 7 Issue 3

• One Man's Reactions: Observations after the Hunter River Flood of June 2007
• Denial, Torpor, Dissent and Forgetting Explored

January 2008
Volume 7 Issue 2

• Local knowledge and gender: re-evaluating the 1967 Hobart bushfire fatalities

2007

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

• June 2007
  Volume 6 Issue 4
• 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

2006

December 2006
Volume 6 Issue 2

• 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

June 2006
Volume 5 Issue 4

• Katherine Flood - April 2006
• Natural Disaster Losses and Climate Change: An Australian Perspective

• March 2006
  Volume 5 Issue 3

• Indexing the Insurance Council of Australia Natural Disaster Event List. What would an event cost today?
• CyclAUS

For issues prior to 2006 please click on volume title to view

2005

• 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
  
  

2004

• 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

2003

• 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
  
  
  

2002

• 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
  
  
  

2001

• Risk Frontiers - NHRC
• Residential building damage in Rabaul 1994
  
  

• Soggy Business - commercial flood damage in Kempsey, 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?
  
  

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• Risk decision-making in natural hazards bushfire as example

• The February 2001 Lismore Flood
• Ground Zonation scale and earthquake loss estimation: A Sydney example

2000

• 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

1999

• 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

1998

• 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