Climate, Society and Elemental Insurance : capacities and limitations

Climate, Society and Elemental Insurance capacities and limitations

In this book, world-leading social scientists come together to provide original insights on the capacities and limitations of insurance in a changing world. Climate change is fundamentally changing the ways we insure, and the ways we think about insurance. This book moves beyond traditional economic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Lucas, Chloe, editor (editor), Booth, Kate, editor, French, Shaun, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, United Kingdom : Taylor & Francis 2022.
Materias:
Sustainability.
Climatic changes.
Liability for environmental damages.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009746888406719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of TablesList of FiguresList of Contributors
  • Acknowledgement
  • Chapter 1. Introduction Kate Booth Section I. Earth
  • Chapter 2. Insurance and geoengineering: From the delusional to the terrestrial? Lauren Rickards
  • Chapter 3. Indexing the soil Olli Hasu and Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen
  • Chapter 4. Renaturalising sovereignty: Ex-ante risk management in the Anthropocene Kevin Grove Section II. Water
  • Chapter 5. Stopping the flow: The aspirational elimination of cross-subsidies in the United States and the United Kingdom Rebecca Elliott
  • Chapter 6. After the flood: Diverse discourses of resilience in the United States and Australia Chloe Lucas and Travis Young
  • Chapter 7. Flood insurance: A governance mechanism for supporting equitable risk reduction and adaptation? Mark Kammerbauer and Christine Wamsler Section III. Fire
  • Chapter 8. Between absence and presence: Questioning the value of insurance for bushfire recovery Scott McKinnon, Christine Eriksen, and Eliza de Vet
  • Chapter 9. Is fire insurable? Insights from bushfires in Australia and wildfires in the United States Kenneth S. Klein
  • Chapter 10. Fire insurance and the 'sustainable building': The environmental politics of urban fire governance Pat O'Malley Section IV. Air
  • Chapter 11. The relational urban geographies of re/insurance: Florida hurricane wind risk and the making of Singapore's catastrophe finance hub Zac J. Taylor
  • Chapter 12. Emotions and under-insurance: Exploring reflexivity and relations with the insurance industry Nick Osbaldiston
  • Chapter 13. Insure the volume? Sensing air, atmospheres and radiation in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Christine Eriksen and Jonathon Turnbull Section V. Big data
  • Chapter 14. The uncertain element: Personal data in behavioural insurance Maiju Tanninen, Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen, and Minna Ruckenstein
  • Chapter 15. Insurance, insurtech, and the architecture of the city Liz McFall
  • Chapter 16. Conclusion: Deconstructing the dualisms of elemental insurance
  • Chloe Lucas
  • Index.

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