Elliott Underwater

Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-54881-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Society and the Environment

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Elliott, Rebecca

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Versicherungswirtschaft
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Rebecca Elliott is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.