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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460867003321

Titolo

Climate change and insurance / / Christina M. Carroll [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, Illinois : , : American Bar Association, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-61438-734-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (518 p.)

Disciplina

346.73/086

Soggetti

Climatic changes - Law and legislation - United States

Climate change insurance - Law and legislation - United States

Liability for environmental damages - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Contents; About the Author; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1: Climate Change and Insurance: An Overview; CHAPTER 2: Climate Change, Global Warming, and Greenhouse Gases: Background; CHAPTER 3: Climate Change as an Emerging Risk and Comparison to Historic Emerging Risks; CHAPTER 4: The Likely Plaintiffs and Targets of Emerging Climate Change-Related Litigation and Regulation; CHAPTER 5: Existing and Emerging Climate Change-Related Regulation; CHAPTER 6: Climate Change-Related Litigation; CHAPTER 7: Intersection of Climate Change and Insurance

CHAPTER 8: Potential Claims Liability: Potential Exposure DriversGlossary of Acronyms & Terms; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Climate change has become a significant issue in scientific, political, and legal circles, and this may have profound implications for the insurance industry. More frequent catastrophic events such as floods, droughts, fires, hurricanes, and the like, whether or not attributable to climate change, challenge the insurance industry's abilities to measure and predict risk. Climate Change and Insurance is the first publication of its kind and the definitive resource for anyone seeking to understand the complex risks and opportunities associated with climate change and its potential impacts on the



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Record Nr.

UNISA996392143203316

Autore

Walkley Thomas <d. 1658?>

Titolo

A catalogue of the dukes, marquesses, earles, viscounts, bishops, barons of the kingdomes of England, Scotland, and Ireland [[electronic resource] ] : with their names, sirnames, and titles of honor. VVhereunto is added a perfect list of the lords, and others of his majesties most honourable privy counsell; knights of the garter, the names of the iudges, the baronets of England and Scotland, with the dates of their patents, the Knights of the Bath from the first of King Iames. With the addition of the Knights from the first of King Charles to this present. Collected by T.W

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for Thomas Walkley, and are to be sold at his shop neare White-hall, 1634

Descrizione fisica

[3], 91, [2] p

Soggetti

England Nobility Registers Early works to 1800

Scotland Nobility Registers Early works to 1800

Ireland Nobility Registers Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

T.W. = Thomas Walkley.

An updated edition of: A most exact catalogue of the nobilitie of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

Reproduction of the original in the Emmanuel College (University of Cambridge). Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0048