Underwater : loss, flood insurance, and the moral economy of climate change in the United States /
"Communities around the United States face the threat of being underwater. This is not only a matter of rising waters reaching the doorstep. It is also the threat of being financially underwater, owning assets worth less than the money borrowed to obtain them. Many areas around the country may...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press
[2021]
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| Series: | Society and the environment.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/elli19026 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Insurance and the problem of loss in a climate-changed United States
- Transforming the management of loss : the origins of the National Flood Insurance Program
- Losing ground : values at risk in an American floodplain
- Visions of loss : knowing and pricing flood risk
- Shifting responsibilities for loss : national reform of flood insurance
- Floodplain futures : trajectories of loss
- Conclusion: What do we have to lose?