Climate change and insurance
Изменение климата и страхование
2021-04-03
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Agricultural micro-insuranceClimate change insuranceEconomization of climate changeMoral economy of riskSovereign risk facilities
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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.
Key Findings
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Insurance functions as an adaptable technology that can be incorporated into different governmental arrangements and deployed for varied political projects.
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Insurance is increasingly central to shaping how climate-change impacts transform local economies and ways of life.
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The analysis places contemporary climate-insurance practices within a broader scholarly tradition concerning the governance of risk and security.
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The collection examines diverse insurance arrangements, including agricultural micro-insurance, Caribbean regional sovereign-risk facilities, and public and private insurance in the United States.
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The papers identify three recurring themes: the economization of climate change, the moral economy of risk and responsibility, and insurance’s institutional plasticity.
Research Object
Insurance mechanisms and arrangements addressing the effects of climate change across local economies and ways of life
Research Subject
The roles, transformations, and political-economic functions of insurance in governing climate-related risk and security
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2021-04-03
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