Criminology and Climate (eBook, ePUB)

Insurance, Finance and the Regulation of Harmscapes
Redaktion: Holley, Cameron; Shearing, Clifford; Phelan, Liam

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together a range of experts across criminology and environment and life sciences, this book explores the role of insurance in industry in contributing to, and responding to, the harms that climate change has brought and will bring either directly or indirectly.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429574955
• Artikelnr.: 60704644

Autorenporträt

Cameron Holley is a Professor at the University of New South Wales Law, UNSW. Cameron works in the areas of environmental law, natural resources law, energy law and water law, with a focus on regulation and governance. Liam Phelan is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia. Liam researches and teaches in two areas: environmental studies with a particular focus on complexity and climate change, and higher education policy and practice. Clifford Shearing holds professorships at the Universities of Cape Town, Griffith and Montreal. The principal focus of Clifford's academic work has been on widening criminology's boundaries, with a primary focus on 'security governance'. His policy and applied work have been concerned with enhancing safety. His research and writing have become increasingly centred on criminology's responses to the challenges of the Anthropocene.

Inhaltsangabe

1.Dark clouds: Regulatory possibilities 2.Co-creating sustainable risk
futures: a role for insurers 3.Crime, regulation and climate finance
4.Speak loudly and carry a small stick: Prudential regulation and the
climate, energy and finance nexus 5.The contradictory roles of the
insurance industry in the era of climate change 6.Quantifying changing
climate risks and built environments in Australia: Implications for
lenders, insurers and regulators 7.The influence of government regulation
on insurers' responses to climate change 8.Insurance in the Anthropocene:
Exposure, solvency and manoeuvrability 9.Finance actors and climate-related
disclosure regulation: Logic, limits and emerging accountability 10.Towards
attribution-based climate insurance: redefining who should pay for
weather-related insurance