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In the wake of Alfred, how do we think about and measure the cost of catastrophes?

By Roger Jones, Professorial Research Fellow, Victoria University

It’s too early to make a full estimate of the costs of Alfred’s impacts. But previous natural disasters give us a framework for thinking about them.

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