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Insuring homes against extreme weather events: a systematic review of the research by Lucas, Chloe H., Booth, Kate I., Garcia, Carolina

“…Home insurance for extreme weather events is a significant security mechanism not only for individual households but for global finance. As extreme weather…”
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Privatizing climate adaptation: How insurance weakens solidaristic and collective disaster recovery by Lucas, Chloe H., Booth, Kate I.

“…As losses from extreme weather events grow, many governments are looking to privatize the financing and incentivization of climate adaptation through insurance…”
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What a Difference Place Makes: Place Gestalt and Some Methodological Thoughts by Booth, Kate Isabel

“…Place is a recurrent yet contested theme in the social sciences, and an emerging theme within qualitative inquiry. How one understands place has significant…”
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A framework for incorporating sense of place into the management of marine systems by van Putten, Ingrid E., Plagányi, Éva E., Booth, Kate, Cvitanovic, Christopher, Kelly, Rachel, Punt, Andre E., Richards, Shane A.

“…Successfully managing current threats to marine resources and ecosystems is largely dependent on our ability to understand and manage human behavior. In recent…”
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An Unmitigated Disaster: Shifting from Response and Recovery to Mitigation for an Insurable Future by de Vet, Eliza, Eriksen, Christine, Booth, Kate, French, Shaun

“…Australian households are increasingly vulnerable to natural hazard-related disasters. To manage disaster risk, government commissioned inquiries have called…”
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Deep Ecology, Hybrid Geographies, and Environmental Management's Relational Premise by Booth, Kate I.

“…The premise of environmental management pivots on managing the people-environment relationship. Yet this field remains dominated by the idea of managing the…”
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Critical insurance studies: Some geographic directions by Booth, Kate

“…Critical insurance studies recognises insurance as not purely actuarial and calculative. From this recognition, this theoretically informed research pays…”
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Scepticism in a changing climate: A cross-national study by Tranter, Bruce, Booth, Kate

“…•Climate scepticism is highest in Australia, New Zealand, Norway and the USA.•Higher levels of CO2 emissions per capita are positively associated with…”
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Is insurance an under-utilised mechanism in climate change adaptation?: The case of bushfire management in Tasmania by Kate Booth, Stewart Williams

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When disaster strikes: Under-insurance in Australian households by Booth, Kate, Tranter, Bruce

“…In undertaking what we believe is the first national-scale study of its kind, we provide methodologically transparent, statistically robust insights into…”
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Underinsurance as adaptation: Household agency in places of marketisation and financialisation by Booth, Kate, Kendal, Dave

“…The underinsurance of property is pervasively and persuasively promoted as an indicator of risk and riskiness and, in Western nations, is assumed to be aligned…”
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Firescapes of disruption: An absence of insurance in landscapes of fire by Booth, Kate

“…In this paper, I critically interrogate the expectation that insurance is becoming more present through the processes of financialisation and marketisation –…”
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Profiteering from Disaster: Why Planners Need to be Paying More Attention to Insurance by Booth, Kate

“…Insurance is overlooked in planning practice and research. Focusing on house and contents insurance in Australia's disaster-prone areas, I describe why the…”
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Geographies of trust: Socio-spatial variegations of trust in insurance by Tranter, Bruce, Booth, Kate

“…Trust is commonly understood as a mechanism that acts to improve transaction efficiency, or as a structural characteristic of organizations. It is a 'good'…”
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Thinking through lines: locating perception and experience in place by Booth, Kate

“…How one conceptualizes place in research matters. I offer a ‘line analysis’ informed by Ingold’s idea that places are ‘tissues of lines’ and argue that this…”
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The places within by Booth, Kate

“…There was a place in my life where I had the time and space to reflect more deeply on the intricacies of home. Here my sense of where I was shifted and…”
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Insurance as catastrophe: A geography of house and contents insurance in bushfire-prone places by Booth, Kate, Harwood, Andrew

“…Insurance is increasingly identified as the disaster management technique of choice; a benign tool that can be utilised to reduce the impacts of disaster and…”
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Insurantial imaginaries: Some implications for home-owning democracies by Booth, Kate, Davison, Aidan, Hulse, Kath

“…‘Insurantial imaginaries’ describes the shared structures of comprehension and action that establishes the social value of insurance and its practical…”
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Insurance, fire and the peri-urban: perceptions of changing communities in Melbourne's rural-urban interface by Young, Travis, Lucas, Chloe, Booth, Kate

“…Across the world, cities are growing, blurring lines between urban and rural. In Australia, peri-urban areas are undergoing demographic shifts and extensive…”
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Impact of routine pre-operative risk assessment on patients undergoing emergency major abdominal surgery in a regional Victorian hospital by Cox, Jason Douglas, Dunley, Frank, Tian, Jia, Booth, Kate, Paynter, Jessica, Lee, Chun Hin Angus

“…Routine preoperative risk assessment (RPRA) using objective risk prediction tools may improve the perioperative outcomes of emergency major abdominal surgery…”
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