Climate, Society and Elemental Insurance : : capacities and limitations / / edited by Kate Booth, Chloe Lucas and Shaun French.
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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Place / Publishing House: | London, United Kingdom : : Taylor & Francis,, 2022. |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 pages) |
Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.