C.N. Nielsen's scientific contributions

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Article
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Extreme weather resilience has been defined as being based on three pillars: resistance (the ability to lower impacts), recovery (the ability to bounce back), and adaptive capacity (the ability to learn and improve). These resilience pillars are important both before and after the occurrence of extreme weather events. Extreme weather insurance can...
Technical Report
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Ramboll and the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) were contracted by the European Commission (EC) to conduct a study on the insurance of weather and climate-related disaster risk, and to create an inventory and analysis of mechanisms to support damage prevention in the European Union (EU). The study provides an overview of the use of insura...

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... ection motivation theory (PMT) (Kuhlicke et al., accepted). Accordingly, if individuals' coping appraisal and risk perception are high, people are motivated to 85 https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2023-64 Preprint. Discussion started: 8 May 2023 c Author(s) 2023. CC BY 4.0 License. undertake actions (Grothmann & Reusswig, 2006;Heidenreich et al., 2021;P. Hudson et al., 2020a;Maddux & Rogers, 1983). This is supported by Grothmann et al. (2013), who additionally summarize that the motivation to act is a primary psychological driver of actual adaptation. Next to the discussion of factors promoting adaptive actions, there is also a discussion on what psychological drivers hinder people from undertaking adaptive ...
... For example, in some countries (e.g. those with mandatory insurance coverage), it is not possible to adjust premiums according to the presence of collective protective measures, as the premiums are flat-based and not risk-based (Le Den et al. 2017). On the contrary, voluntary insurance schemes can manage premiums according to the risk exposure. ...