Full Description
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.
Contents
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
