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 ec...

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Group Author: Booth, Kate (Editor); Lucas, Chloe (Editor); French, Shaun (Editor)
Published: Routledge,
Publisher Address: Abingdon, Oxon :
Publication Dates: 2022.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Summary: "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 economics and financial understandings of insurance to address the social and geopolitical dimensions of this powerful and pervasive part of contemporary life. Insurance shapes material and social realities, and is shaped by them in turn. The contributing authors of this book show how insurance constitutes and is constituted through the traditional elements of earth, water, air, fire, and the novel element of big data. The applied and theoretical insights presented through this novel elemental approach reveal that insurance is more dynamic, multifaceted, and spatially variegated than commonly imagined. This book is an authoritative source on the capacities and limitations of insurance. It is a go-to reference for researchers and students in the social sciences - particularly those with an interest in economics and finance, and how these intersect with geography, politics, and society. It is also relevant for those in the disaster, environmental, health, natural and social sciences who are interested in the role of insurance in addressing risk, resilience, and adaptation"--
Carrier Form: xiv, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780367743864
0367743868
9780367743871
0367743876
Index Number: HG8026
CLC: F840-05
Call Number: F840-05/C639
Contents: Machine generated contents note:
Introduction /
Earth --
Insurance and geoengineering: From the delusional to the terrestrial? /
Indexing the soil /
Renaturalising sovereignty: Ex-ante risk management in the Anthropocene /
Water --
Stopping the flow: The aspirational elimination of flood insurance cross-subsidies in the United States and the United Kingdom /
After the flood: Diverse discourses of resilience in the United States and Australia /
Flood insurance: A governance mechanism for supporting equitable risk reduction and adaptation? /
Fire --
Between absence and presence: Questioning the value of insurance for bushfire recovery /
Is fire insurable? Insights from bushfires in Australia and wildfires in the United States /
Fire insurance and the `sustainable building': The environmental politics of urban fire governance /
Air --
The relational urban geographies of re/insurance: Florida hurricane wind risk and the making of Singapore's catastrophe finance hub /
Emotions and under-insurance: Exploring reflexivity and relations with the insurance industry /
Insure the volume? Sensing air, atmospheres, and radiation in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone /
Big data --
The uncertain element: Personal data in behavioural insurance /
Insurance, insurtech, and the architecture of the city /
Conclusion: Deconstructing the dualisms of elemental insurance /