Underwater – Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States: Society and the Environment
Autor Rebecca Elliotten Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 mar 2021
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ISBN-13: 9780231190275
ISBN-10: 0231190271
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Columbia University Press
Seria Society and the Environment
ISBN-10: 0231190271
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Columbia University Press
Seria Society and the Environment
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Timeline of Events
Introduction: Insurance and the Problem of Loss in a Climate-Changed United States
1. Transforming the Management of Loss: The Origins of the National Flood Insurance Program
2. Losing Ground: Values at Risk in an American Floodplain
3. Visions of Loss: Knowing and Pricing Flood Risk
4. Shifting Responsibilities for Loss: National Reform of Flood Insurance
5. Floodplain Futures: Trajectories of Loss
Conclusion: What Do We Have to Lose?
Methodological Appendix
Notes
Index
Timeline of Events
Introduction: Insurance and the Problem of Loss in a Climate-Changed United States
1. Transforming the Management of Loss: The Origins of the National Flood Insurance Program
2. Losing Ground: Values at Risk in an American Floodplain
3. Visions of Loss: Knowing and Pricing Flood Risk
4. Shifting Responsibilities for Loss: National Reform of Flood Insurance
5. Floodplain Futures: Trajectories of Loss
Conclusion: What Do We Have to Lose?
Methodological Appendix
Notes
Index
Notă biografică
Rebecca Elliott is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Rebecca Elliott explores how families, communities, and governments confront problems of loss as the climate changes. She offers the first in-depth account of the politics and social effects of the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program, in an incisive consideration of the dilemmas of moral economy underlying insurance.
Rebecca Elliott explores how families, communities, and governments confront problems of loss as the climate changes. She offers the first in-depth account of the politics and social effects of the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program, in an incisive consideration of the dilemmas of moral economy underlying insurance.