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Firm finances, weather derivatives and geography.
- Source :
- Geoforum; Mar2008, Vol. 39 Issue 2, p616-624, 9p
- Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- Abstract: This paper considers some intellectual, practical and political dimensions of collaboration between human and physical geographers exploring how firms are using relatively new financial products – weather derivatives – to displace any costs of weather-related uncertainty and risk. The paper defines weather derivatives and indicates how they differ from weather insurance products before considering the geo-political, cultural and economic context for their creation. The paper concludes by reflecting on the challenges of research collaboration across the human–physical geography divide and suggests that while such initiatives may be undermined by a range of institutional and intellectual factors, conversations between physical and human geographers remain and are likely to become increasingly pertinent. The creation of a market in weather derivatives raises a host of urgent political and regulatory questions and the confluence of natural and social knowledges, co-existing within and through the geography academy, provides a constructive and creative basis from which to engage with this new market and wider discourses of uneven economic development and climate change. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
- Subjects :
- CLIMATE change
EARTH sciences
PHYSICAL sciences
ENVIRONMENTAL sciences
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00167185
- Volume :
- 39
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Geoforum
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 31253494
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.03.008