Climate, Society and Elemental Insurance : capacities and limitations / edited by Kate Booth, Chloe Lucas and Shaun French.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lucas, Chloe, editor.

Booth, Kate, editor.

French, Shaun, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainability.

Climatic changes.

Liability for environmental damages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages)

Other Title:

Climate, Society and Elemental Insurance

Place of Publication:

London, United Kingdom : Taylor & Francis, 2022.

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes index.