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Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States - Society and the Environment Elliott, Rebecca (Assistant Professor of Sociology)
Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States - Society and the Environment
Elliott, Rebecca (Assistant Professor of Sociology)
Rebecca Elliott explores how families, communities, and governments confront problems of loss as the climate changes. She offers the first in-depth account of the politics and social effects of the U. S. National Flood Insurance Program, in an incisive consideration of the dilemmas of moral economy underlying insurance.
296 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 5, 2021 |
| ISBN13 | 9780231190268 |
| Publishers | Columbia University Press |
| Pages | 296 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 24 mm · 607 g |
| Language | English |