Climate change and insurance

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 so...

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Published in:Economy and society 2021-04, Vol.50 (2), p.158-172
Main Authors: Collier, Stephen J., Elliott, Rebecca, Lehtonen, Turo-Kimmo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural development
Agricultural research
Agricultural technology
Climate change
Development policy
Insurance
Local economy
Moral economy
National security
Plasticity
Risk
risk society
Technology
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0308-5147
1469-5766
DOI:10.1080/03085147.2021.1903771