Climate, society and elemental insurance : capacities and limitations /: capacities and limitations. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Kate Booth, Chloe Lucas, Shaun French.
• Editors: Booth, Kate; Lucas, Chloe; French, Shaun
• Contents: List of Tables List of Figures List 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 368; Insurance -- Social aspects; Liability for environmental damages; Climatic changes; Sustainability
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000591750; 9781000591682; 9781003157571
• Related ISBNs: 9780367743864
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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