Paul K. Freeman

Managing Environmental Risk Through Insurance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This text focuses on insurance as a tool for addressing risk, as opposed to government benefit programs or involuntary liability using the court system. It examines the public policy and economic nature of insurance, the insurability of risks and applies this to three environmental examples.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Risk and Uncertaint
• Verlag: AEI Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 107
• Erscheinungstermin: Januar 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 213g
• ISBN-13: 9780844740195
• ISBN-10: 0844740195
• Artikelnr.: 33271040

Inhaltsangabe

I Managing Societal Risks.- Introduction: Overview of the Problem.- 1 Managing Risk through Government Benefit Programs.- 2 Managing Risk through the Legal System.- 3 Managing Risk through Insurance.- II Managing Environmental Risks.- Introduction: Insuring Environmental Risks.- 4 The Insurability and Marketability of Risk.- 5 Insuring Asbestos Risk: Background and Identification of Risk.- 6 Insuring Asbestos Risk: Insurability and Marketability Conditions.- 7 Insuring Other Types of Environmental Risk.- 8 Summary and Conclusions.

Rezensionen

`...this is an extremely timely book whose message deserves serious attention by policy makers and politicians.'
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 41:5 (1998)

`...this is an extremely timely book whose message deserves serious attention by policy makers and politicians.'
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 41:5 (1998)