Criminology and Climate Insurance, Finance and the Regulation of Harmscapes /
edited by Cameron Holley, Liam Phelan, Clifford Shearing.
- 1st edition.
- 1 online resource illustrations (black and white)
- Criminology at the edge .
This book explores the role of the insurance industry in contributing to, and responding to, the harms that climate change has brought and will bring either directly or indirectly. The Anthropocene signifies a new role for humankind: we are the only species that has become a driving force in the planetary system. What might criminology be in the Anthropocene? What does the Anthropocene suggest for future theory and practice of criminology? Criminology and Climate, as part of Routledge's Criminology at the Edge Series, seeks to contribute to this research agenda by exploring differing vantage points relevant to thinking within criminology. Contemporary societies are presented with myriad intersecting and interacting climate-related harms at multiple scales. Criminology and Climate brings attention to the finance sector, with a particular focus on the insurance industry as one of its most significant components, in both generating and responding to new climate harmscapes'. Bringing together thought leaders from a variety of disciplines, this book considers what finance and insurance have done and might still do, as fulcrum institutions', to contribute to the realisation of safe and just planetary spaces. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, law and environmental studies and provides readers with a basis to analyse the challenges and opportunities for the finance sector, and in particular the insurance industry, in the regulation of climate harms.
0429577060 9780429201172 0429201176 9780429577062 9780429574955 0429574959 9780429572845 0429572840
10.4324/9780429201172 doi
Climate change insurance.
Climatic changes--Social aspects.
Criminology--Environmental aspects.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Insurance / General
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
HG9979
368.122
This book explores the role of the insurance industry in contributing to, and responding to, the harms that climate change has brought and will bring either directly or indirectly. The Anthropocene signifies a new role for humankind: we are the only species that has become a driving force in the planetary system. What might criminology be in the Anthropocene? What does the Anthropocene suggest for future theory and practice of criminology? Criminology and Climate, as part of Routledge's Criminology at the Edge Series, seeks to contribute to this research agenda by exploring differing vantage points relevant to thinking within criminology. Contemporary societies are presented with myriad intersecting and interacting climate-related harms at multiple scales. Criminology and Climate brings attention to the finance sector, with a particular focus on the insurance industry as one of its most significant components, in both generating and responding to new climate harmscapes'. Bringing together thought leaders from a variety of disciplines, this book considers what finance and insurance have done and might still do, as fulcrum institutions', to contribute to the realisation of safe and just planetary spaces. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, law and environmental studies and provides readers with a basis to analyse the challenges and opportunities for the finance sector, and in particular the insurance industry, in the regulation of climate harms.
0429577060 9780429201172 0429201176 9780429577062 9780429574955 0429574959 9780429572845 0429572840
10.4324/9780429201172 doi
Climate change insurance.
Climatic changes--Social aspects.
Criminology--Environmental aspects.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Insurance / General
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
HG9979
368.122