Full Description
This book identifies the role of insurance in a comprehensive system for managing environmental risks at the local, regional and global level. National and international legal instruments regulating environmental protection, especially aspects like pollution, are not precisely reflected in insurance concepts intended to cover environmental risks. As such, there is a need to identify environmental risks and to propose a taxonomy of environmental risks for various types of insurance coverage. The authors refer to the issues of liability in environmental protection, the scope of insurance coverage and comment on specific issues the importance of which has been noticed by the legislator or insurance practice.
The book examines these issues horizontally and vertically from various standpoints, focusing on insurance as a means of managing environmental risks. In this regard, it mainly concentrates on (1) identifying and analyzing environmental risks and methods for managing them via private and public instruments, and (2) insuring these risks.
The book is intended for all those interested in the field of insurance and environmental risk regimes, including lawyers, academics and legal professionals.
Contents
Law and environment. Prevention, control, responsibility.- Global Governance of the Environment and implications for the Insurance Industry.- Environmental liabilities and Insurance Law in the EU.- Environmental Liabilities and Insurance Law in the United Kingdom.- Managing Environmental Risk through Insurance: China.- Environmental Liabilities and Insurance Law in the United States.- Environmental Civil Liability In The Mercosur Region South America.- Environmental insurance product.- Prevention in environmental insurance.- Loss adjustment in the environmental insurance and the role of the loss adjuster.- Waste insurance.- Underwriting Environmental Risks for Carbon Capture Usage and Storage (CCUS) Coverage: Challenges and Best Practices Forward.- Liability for environmental damage in aviation.- Liability for environmental damage in outer space and its insurance.- Liability for pollution damage to the marine environment.
