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Underwater
Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States
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Rebecca Elliott
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English
Published/Copyright:
2021
About this book
Rebecca Elliott explores how families, communities, and governments confront problems of loss as the climate changes. She offers the first in-depth account of the politics and social effects of the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program, in an incisive consideration of the dilemmas of moral economy underlying insurance.
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Rebecca Elliott is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Neil Fligstein, University of California, Berkeley:
Underwater explores how Americans directly affected by storms like Hurricane Sandy have been forced to confront the impact climate change has on their homes, families, and communities. This path-breaking study shows that the terrain of these discussions, centered on struggles over arcane issues like insurance and flood maps, raises deeply political and moral questions about who should pay for and be responsible for the impacts of what will certainly be steadily worsening events.
Underwater explores how Americans directly affected by storms like Hurricane Sandy have been forced to confront the impact climate change has on their homes, families, and communities. This path-breaking study shows that the terrain of these discussions, centered on struggles over arcane issues like insurance and flood maps, raises deeply political and moral questions about who should pay for and be responsible for the impacts of what will certainly be steadily worsening events.
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eBook published on:
January 29, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9780231548816
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eBook ISBN:
9780231548816
Keywords for this book
economics of loss; climate change; flood insurance; FEMA; NFIP; sociology of loss
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
