| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
London, United Kingdom : , : Taylor & Francis, , 2022
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (248 pages)
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| Disciplina |
368
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| Soggetto topico |
Sustainability
Climatic changes
Liability for environmental damages
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
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.
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| Altri titoli varianti |
Climate, Society and Elemental Insurance
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910563073503321 |
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Climate, Society and Elemental Insurance : capacities and limitations / / edited by Kate Booth, Chloe Lucas and Shaun French