1. Climate change and insurance.
- Author
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Collier, Stephen J., Elliott, Rebecca, and Lehtonen, Turo-Kimmo
- Subjects
CLIMATE change ,INSURANCE ,SOVEREIGN risk ,AGRICULTURAL development ,FINANCIAL planning ,REGIONAL planning - Abstract
This special collection examines insurance as an increasingly central mechanism in shaping how the effects of climate change are transforming local economies and ways of life. The papers study a range of exemplary cases, ranging from agricultural micro-insurance in development policy and regional sovereign risk facilities in the Caribbean to public and private insurance in the United States. This framing essay situates these papers in a longer tradition of scholarship on the government of risk and security. It also describes three themes that run through the papers: the economization of climate change; the moral economy of risk and responsibility; and the plasticity of insurance as an abstract technology that may be taken up in various governmental assemblages, in the name of various political projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2021
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