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Natural Disaster Insurance in China: Model Reference, Development Challenges and Suggestions

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Abstract

With the warming global climate and the acceleration of industrialization and urbanization, the impact of natural disasters on human beings is becoming increasingly significant. How to reduce the loss of human production and life caused by natural disasters has always been a common problem faced by all countries in the world. As an important tool for dispersing natural disaster risks, insurance is indispensable for enhancing the resilience of economic and social development against risks. Developed countries are constantly exploring and improving related systems and models, as is the case with UK, Japan, the United States, France, represented by different insurance models. The geological survey has played an important role in supporting the development of natural disaster insurance system. There are many types of natural disasters with wide distribution and high frequency in China, but the development of natural disaster insurance lags behind. In addition to such factors as the imperfect legal system and low willingness to purchase insurance, the lack of technical support for natural disasters provided by insurance companies is also an important reason. In order to promote the establishment of a natural disaster insurance system, China needs to learn from the relevant experience of developed countries, strengthen the natural disaster survey, basic geological survey, and promote the formulation of relevant standards for delimitating and classifying insurance types, so as to provide professional technical support for the perfection of natural disaster insurance system.

Published in International Journal of Natural Resource Ecology and Management (Volume 7, Issue 2)
DOI 10.11648/j.ijnrem.20220702.14
Page(s) 93-98
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Natural Disaster, Natural Disaster Insurance, Geological Survey, Natural Disaster Insurance in China

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  • Development Research Center of China Geological Survey, Beijing, China

  • Beijing 21st Century International School, Beijing, China

  • The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

  • Lanzhou Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China

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