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oapen-20.500.12657-541892023-06-27T12:19:16Z Climate, Society and Elemental Insurance Booth, Kate Lucas, Chloe French, Shaun elemental insurance insurance and climate insurance and climate change insurance and climate risk insurance and the environment insurance and weather insurance industry bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RG Geography bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography In this book, world-leading social scientists come together to provide original insights on the capacities and limitations of insurance in a changing world. Climate change is fundamentally changing the ways we insure, and the ways we think about insurance. This book moves beyond traditional economics and financial understandings of insurance to address the social and geopolitical dimensions of this powerful and pervasive part of contemporary life. Insurance shapes material and social realities, and is shaped by them in turn. The contributing authors of this book show how insurance constitutes and is constituted through the traditional elements of earth, water, air, fire, and the novel element of big data. The applied and theoretical insights presented through this novel elemental approach reveal that insurance is more dynamic, multifaceted, and spatially variegated than commonly imagined. This book is an authoritative source on the capacities and limitations of insurance. It is a go-to reference for researchers and students in the social sciences – particularly those with an interest in economics and finance, and how these intersect with geography, politics, and society. It is also relevant for those in the disaster, environmental, health, natural, and social sciences who are interested in the role of insurance in addressing risk, resilience, and adaptation. 2022-04-26T08:40:27Z 2022-04-26T08:40:27Z 2022 book ONIX_20220426_9781000591682_23 9780367743864 9781003157571 9780367743871 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54189 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781000591682.pdf http://www.routledge.com Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003157571 10.4324/9781003157571 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb Knowledge Unlatched 9780367743864 9781003157571 9780367743871 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Routledge 248 7247 7247 open access
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In this book, world-leading social scientists come together to provide original insights on the capacities and limitations of insurance in a changing world. Climate change is fundamentally changing the ways we insure, and the ways we think about insurance. This book moves beyond traditional economics and financial understandings of insurance to address the social and geopolitical dimensions of this powerful and pervasive part of contemporary life. Insurance shapes material and social realities, and is shaped by them in turn. The contributing authors of this book show how insurance constitutes and is constituted through the traditional elements of earth, water, air, fire, and the novel element of big data. The applied and theoretical insights presented through this novel elemental approach reveal that insurance is more dynamic, multifaceted, and spatially variegated than commonly imagined. This book is an authoritative source on the capacities and limitations of insurance. It is a go-to reference for researchers and students in the social sciences – particularly those with an interest in economics and finance, and how these intersect with geography, politics, and society. It is also relevant for those in the disaster, environmental, health, natural, and social sciences who are interested in the role of insurance in addressing risk, resilience, and adaptation.
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