Underwater : : Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States / / Rebecca Elliott.
Communities around the United States face the threat of being underwater. This is not only a matter of rising waters reaching the doorstep. It is also the threat of being financially underwater, owning assets worth less than the money borrowed to obtain them. Many areas around the country may become...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Society and the Environment
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- TIMELINE OF EVENTS
- INTRODUCTION Insurance and the Problem of Loss in a Climate-Changed United States
- Chapter One TRANSFORMING THE MANAGEMENT OF LOSS The Origins of the National Flood Insurance Program
- Chapter Two LOSING GROUND Values at Risk in an American Floodplain
- Chapter Three VISIONS OF LOSS Knowing and Pricing Flood Risk
- Chapter Four SHIFTING RESPONSIBILITIES FOR LOSS National Reform of Flood Insurance
- Chapter Five FLOODPLAIN FUTURES Trajectories of Loss
- CONCLUSION What Do We Have to Lose?
- METHODOLOGICAL APPENDIX
- NOTES
- INDEX