Climate, society and elemental insurance : capacities and limitations

Climate, society and elemental insurance : capacities and limitations / edited by Kate Booth, Chloe Lucas, and Shaun French - 1 online resource (xiv, 232 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section 1. Earth Insurance and geoengineering : from the delusional to the terrestrial? / Lauren Rickards Indexing the soil / Olli Hasu, Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen Renaturalising sovereignty : ex-ante risk management in the Anthropocene / Kevin Grove Section 2. Water Stopping the flow : the aspirational elimination of flood insurance cross-subsidies in the United States and the United Kingdom / Rebecca Elliott Stopping the flow : the aspirational elimination of flood insurance cross-subsidies in the United States and the United Kingdom / Rebecca Elliott Flood insurance : a governance mechanism for supporting equitable risk reduction and adaptation? / Mark Kammerbauer, Christine Wamsler Section 3. Fire Between absence and presence : questioning the value of insurance for bushfire recovery / Scott McKinnon, Christine Eriksen, Eliza de Vet Is fire insurable? : Insights from bushfires in Australia and wildfires in the United States / Kenneth S. Klein Fire insurance and the ‘sustainable building’ : the environmental politics of urban fire governance / Pat O'Malley Section 4. Air The relational urban geographies of re/insurance : Florida hurricane wind risk and the making of Singapore's catastrophe finance hub / Zac J. Taylor Emotions and under-insurance : exploring reflexivity and relations with the insurance industry / Nick Osbaldiston Insure the volume? : Sensing air, atmospheres, and radiation in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone / Christine Eriksen, Jonathon Turnbull Section 5. Big data The uncertain element : personal data in behavioural insurance / Maiju Tanninen, Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen, Minna Ruckenstein Insurance, insurtech, and the architecture of the city / Liz McFall Conclusion : deconstructing the dualisms of elemental insurance / Chloe Lucas

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Insurance--Social aspects
Liability for environmental damages

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