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When insurance and goodwill are not enough: Bushfire Attack Level (BAL) ratings, risk calculations and disaster resilience in Australia
Australian Geographer ( IF 2.672 ) Pub Date : 2019-11-19 , DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2019.1691436
Eliza de Vet 1 , Christine Eriksen 1
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ABSTRACT Home and contents insurance is integral to household and community resilience against disasters. Yet many households are underinsured. While causes for underinsurance have been widely researched, changes to Australian building regulations in the last decade has established a new source of insurance miscalculations. Bushfire Attack Level (BAL) ratings can inflate rebuilding costs by 20% or more, yet BAL ratings remain obfuscated to homeowners and are notoriously confusing to navigate. After the October 2013 bushfires in New South Wales, the Blue Mountains Local Recovery Steering Group found that ‘information on the BAL process, the guidelines, the expected costs, the consulting experts and a property’s bushfire-prone status is literally all over the place’. This paper aims to provide clarity on the subject, tracing the precise socio-technical means through which disaster risk is perceived and assessed. The paper conceptualises insurance and risk ratings as calculative devices that provide both a technical solution to reduce financial losses and a philosophical tool for risk rationalisation. It then builds on interviews conducted with residents in the Blue Mountains affected by the 2013 bushfires, to ascertain how such calculative devices practically affect communities at risk. The paper concludes by outlining potential solutions to a confusing and costly problem in Australia, highlighting critical public awareness issues surround BAL ratings, which have profound insurance and wellbeing implications for people rebuilding and recovering from bushfire.

中文翻译:

当保险和商誉还不够时:澳大利亚的丛林大火攻击等级 (BAL) 评级、风险计算和灾难恢复能力

摘要 家庭和财产保险是家庭和社区抗灾能力不可或缺的一部分。然而,许多家庭的保险不足。虽然保险不足的原因已得到广泛研究,但过去十年澳大利亚建筑法规的变化已经确立了保险误判的新来源。丛林大火攻击级别 (BAL) 评级会使重建成本增加 20% 或更多,但 BAL 评级对房主来说仍然是模糊不清的,并且是出了名的难以导航。在 2013 年 10 月新南威尔士州的森林大火之后,蓝山当地恢复指导小组发现“关于 BAL 流程、指导方针、预期成本、咨询专家和房产易发生森林火灾的状态的信息几乎无处不在” . 本文旨在提供清晰的主题,追踪感知和评估灾害风险的精确社会技术手段。该论文将保险和风险评级概念化为计算工具,既提供了减少财务损失的技术解决方案,又提供了风险合理化的哲学工具。然后,它以对受 2013 年森林大火影响的蓝山居民进行的采访为基础,以确定此类计算工具实际上如何影响面临风险的社区。该论文最后概述了澳大利亚一个令人困惑且代价高昂的问题的潜在解决方案,强调了围绕 BAL 评级的关键公众意识问题,这些问题对人们重建和从丛林大火中恢复过来具有深远的保险和福祉影响。该论文将保险和风险评级概念化为计算工具,既提供了减少财务损失的技术解决方案,又提供了风险合理化的哲学工具。然后,它以对受 2013 年森林大火影响的蓝山居民进行的采访为基础,以确定此类计算工具实际上如何影响面临风险的社区。本文最后概述了澳大利亚一个令人困惑且代价高昂的问题的潜在解决方案,强调了围绕 BAL 评级的关键公众意识问题,这些问题对人们重建和从丛林大火中恢复过来具有深远的保险和福祉影响。该论文将保险和风险评级概念化为计算工具,既提供了减少财务损失的技术解决方案,又提供了风险合理化的哲学工具。然后,它以对受 2013 年森林大火影响的蓝山居民进行的采访为基础,以确定此类计算工具实际上如何影响面临风险的社区。该论文最后概述了澳大利亚一个令人困惑且代价高昂的问题的潜在解决方案,强调了围绕 BAL 评级的关键公众意识问题,这些问题对人们重建和从丛林大火中恢复过来具有深远的保险和福祉影响。然后,它以对受 2013 年森林大火影响的蓝山居民进行的采访为基础,以确定此类计算工具实际上如何影响面临风险的社区。该论文最后概述了澳大利亚一个令人困惑且代价高昂的问题的潜在解决方案,强调了围绕 BAL 评级的关键公众意识问题,这些问题对人们重建和从丛林大火中恢复过来具有深远的保险和福祉影响。然后,它以对受 2013 年森林大火影响的蓝山居民进行的采访为基础,以确定此类计算工具实际上如何影响面临风险的社区。该论文最后概述了澳大利亚一个令人困惑且代价高昂的问题的潜在解决方案,强调了围绕 BAL 评级的关键公众意识问题,这些问题对人们重建和从丛林大火中恢复过来具有深远的保险和福祉影响。
更新日期:2019-11-19
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