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The Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP) is one of the best practices of public-private partnerships in an emerging market designed to reduce economic losses from disasters. This paper reviews the application of this compulsory mechanism along with data relating to the performance of the scheme following recent earthquakes in Turkey. We also consider the current perceptions of Turkish society towards the TCIP and how they can be enhanced. Our conclusions aim to assist stakeholders in government, homeowners, insurance companies, media, banks and civil society to appreciate the value of the system and key actions necessary to improve it.

The Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP) is one of the best practices of public-private partnerships in an emerging market designed to reduce economic losses from disasters. This paper reviews the application of this compulsory mechanism along with data relating to the performance of the scheme following recent earthquakes in Turkey. We also consider the current perceptions of Turkish society towards the TCIP and how they can be enhanced. Our conclusions aim to assist stakeholders in government, homeowners, insurance companies, media, banks and civil society to appreciate the value of the system and key actions necessary to improve it.

A critical and interdisciplinary exploration of our world's continuously urbanizing and expanding coastline.For centuries, cities have grown and expanded onto previously saturated grounds; "reclaiming" land from estuaries, marshes, mangroves, and seabeds. While these artificial coastlines are sites of tremendous real estate, civic, and infrastructural investments, they are also the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. 'Terra-Sorta-Firma' documents the global extent of reclaimed coastal lands, and provides a framework for comparison across varying geographies, cultures, and histories. It renders visible the ubiquity and precarity of urban coastal reclamation in an age of increased environmental and economic indeterminacy.It challenges designers, developers, policymakers, engineers, and urbanists to reconsider the design and construction of land itself, and to re-imagine this most fundamental of all infrastructures along a gradient of inundation

Este artículo examina la pertinencia o no de firmar el Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) con los Estados Unidos, dado el estado actual de las negociaciones, el contexto político y los escenarios posibles en caso de no concretarse este acuerdo. Se concluye con la necesidad de darle un mayor contenido a la posibilidad de no firmar el TLC, en tanto que se requieren propuestas concretas para una inserción dinámica del país en el mercado mundial, para consolidar incluso sus relaciones con los Estados Unidos y, sobre todo, para construir una integración verdadera, que no sea simplemente la reedición de caducas prácticas integracionistas. ; This article examines the convenience or not to sign the Free Trade Agreement with the United States, given the present condition of the negotiations, the political context, and the possible settings in case this agreement doesn't take shape. It concludes with the need to give greater content to the possibility of not signing the Agreement, whereas concrete proposals for a dynamic insertion of the country in the world-wide market are required, to even consolidate its relations with the United States and, mainly, to build a true integration, that is not simply the re-edition of defunct integrationist practices.