Know your correlation: An interactive game

From Disaster Risk Gateway

Publication Year: 2024

Access: Open

Link: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12532855

Author(s): John Hillier

Organisation(s)/Authors: Loughborough University

Description:

Aimed at people new to the field of catastrophe risk management or multi-hazard risk, this serious game simulates 6 possible hazards (i.e. causes of loss) and explores how hazard interactions and dependency between lines of business or regions can influence the chance of loss exceeding a threshold. The aim of the game is to explore correlation and dependencies to estimate losses.

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Key Words:

Insurance, Risk correlation, Natural hazard Dependency, Co-occurring hazards, Compound risk