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Insuring Against Climate Change - The Emergence of Regional Catastrophe Risk Pools (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,469
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Insuring Against Climate Change - The Emergence of Regional Catastrophe Risk Pools (Hardcover): Nikolas Scherer

Insuring Against Climate Change - The Emergence of Regional Catastrophe Risk Pools (Hardcover)

Nikolas Scherer

Series: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research

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This book provides one of the first systematic in-depth studies on regional catastrophe risk pools. It explores the various goals of these new financial instruments, illustrating how they function on a conceptual, technical and practical level, and reconstructs their political genesis. With climate-related disasters increasing in frequency and severity, Insuring Against Climate Change explores how affected countries, especially those in the Global South, have increasingly turned to innovative index insurance instruments, as demonstrated by the creation of the Caribbean Catastrophic Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF), the African Risk Capacity (ARC) and the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative Facility (PCRAFI Facility). Scherer scrutinizes the formation of this trend, exploring comparatively the goals, characteristics and histories of these tools, and argues that their attractiveness rests more on political than economic benefits and is, in fact, more supply than demand-driven. Making a significant contribution to current debates on the opportunities and limitations of what are sometimes described as indirect 'climate risk insurance', this book will be of great interest to political scientists with an interest in insurance instruments and climate-related disaster management politics as well as to practitioners working in the insurance, finance and the development sectors.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
Release date: March 2020
First published: 2020
Authors: Nikolas Scherer
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-34247-0
Categories: Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental impact of natural disasters & phenomena
Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > General
Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > Global warming
Books > Business & Economics > Finance & accounting > Finance > Insurance > General
Books > Money & Finance > Insurance > General
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LSN: 0-367-34247-2
Barcode: 9780367342470

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