Climate, Society and Elemental Insurance: Capacities and Limitations ¦ HB ¦ New

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Climate, Society and Elemental Insurance \n\nCapacities and Limitations\n\nHardback\n\nCondition: New\n\nEdited by: Kate Booth, Chloe Lucas & Shaun French\n\nPublisher:  Routledge\n\nFormat: Hardback\n\nISBN:  9780367743864\n\nDescription\n\n \n\nIn this book, world-leading social scientists come together to provide original insights on the capacities and limitations of insurance in a changing world.\n\nClimate change is fundamentally changing the ways we insure, and the ways we think about insurance. \n\nThis 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. \n\nInsurance shapes material and social realities and is shaped by them in turn. \n\nThe 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.\n\n;