Climate change and insurance

Stephen J. Collier, Rebecca Elliott and Turo-kimmo Lehtonen

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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.

Keywords: climate change; risk society; insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F3 G3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2021
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Published in Economy and Society, 2021, 50(2), pp. 158 - 172. ISSN: 0308-5147

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