In this section you will find all content created and distributed by the ICLR. This content includes magazines, newsletters, books, reports, presentations, and other related media content from both present and years past.
Research Papers
Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction’s research papers cover Flood, Hail, Earthquake, Wind, Wildfire, and many other research topics.Please follow the Research Papers link below to find a list of PDF documents that can be read online.
CatTales Newsletter
CatTales is the e-newsletter of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction. Each link below leads to a PDF document that can be read online.
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Magazine Articles
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“Dodging a bullet”, Canadian Underwriter Statistical Issue
This article originally appeared in the June 10, 2016 issue of The Lawyers Weekly
“Insuring black holes”, Canadian Underwriter
“‘Round n ‘Round”, Canadian Underwriter Statistical Issue
“Adapting to extreme rainfall”, Claims Canada
“Under development”; Canadian Underwriter
“Icy finish”; Canadian Underwriter
“All hail”; Canadian Underwriter
“Reducing heat-wave risk through active and passive measures”; Municipal World
“Retrofitting Homes to Reduce Basement Flood Risk: Lessons Learned”; Municipal World
“Customizing home retrofits: Lessons learned”; Canadian Underwriter
“What ifs’ and Wildcards,” Canadian Underwriter Statistical Issue
“The Wind Whisperer”, Canadian Underwriter
“Weighing the Losses and New Cat Covers”; Canadian Underwriter
“Plowing on through”; Canadian Underwriter Statistical Issue
“Flood of Options”; Canadian Underwriter
“Brewing Bigger Storms”; Canadian Underwriter
“Built to a New Code”; Canadian Underwriter
“Déjà Vu All Over Again”; Canadian Underwriter Statistical Issue
“Bridging science and society: Gordon McBean receives Order of Canada for his climate change work”. Canadian Underwriter
“Citizen Participation in Flood Reduction Planning: Lessons from Peterborough, Ontario after 5 years”. Municipal World
“Annus Horriblis, The Sequel”, Canadian Underwriter
“El Nino: Four Lessons for Canadian Insurers”, Canadian Underwriter
“Taming the Big Bad Wolf: An eyewitness account of the damage caused by the Vaughan tornadoes”, Canadian Underwriter
“More Stresses, More Strains, More Costs Dealing With Climate Change and Infrastructure”, Milestones (Ontario Good Roads Association
“The Environment and Energy Security: Obama and Harper have different takes”, Policy Options
“Building the Case for Improved Infrastructure”, Canadian Underwriter
“Catching Like Wildfire”, Canadian Insurance magazine
“Climate change adaptation reference collection”; Municipal World
“Planning for disaster, climate change and sustainable development”; Municipal World
“All About the Nails”, Canadian Underwriter.
“Urban Flooding, Homeowner Hazard Perceptions and Climate Change”, Public Sector Digest
“Shingle Damage: In the Eye of the Storm”, Canadian Underwriter.
“Cause and Effect”. Claims Canada.
“Tornadoes: The Hidden Damage”, Canadian Underwriter.
“Slippery Slope”; Canadian Underwriter Statistical Issue
“Burning Issue”; Canadian Underwriter
“Basement Flooding: Lessons from Edmonton and Toronto”, Municipal World
“Diary of Urban Flooding”; Canadian Underwriter.
“Flood of Information”; Canadian Underwriter.
“Billion-dollar Bruisers”; Canadian Underwriter.
“Climate change and local government: The changing risk environment”; Disaster Management Canada.
Books
Application of the Systems Approach to the Management of Complex Water Systems
Dr. Slobodan P. Simonovic
Lowering Risk by Increasing Resilience: Selected Papers from 8th International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM 8)
Dr. Slobodan P. Simonovic, Subhankar Karmakar and Zhang Cheng (Eds.)
Systems Approach to Management of Disasters
Dr. Slobodan P. Simonovic
Wind Wizard
Siobhan Roberts
Floods in a Changing Climate
Dr. Slobodan P. Simonovic
Managing Water Resources
Slobodan P. Simonovic
Homeowner Safety and Focus on Brochures
Follow this link to the Homeowner page to view the Homeowner Safety Brochures and Focus on Brochures by ICLR.