Governing urban resilience: Insurance and the problematization of climate change

Collier, Stephen J.; Cox, Savannah

doi:10.1080/03085147.2021.1904621

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“…As a growing body of scholarship has shown, resilience has no internal coherence. It is instead an essentially contested concept that can be deployed in a variety of situations in diverse, sometimes contradictory ways (Anderson, 2015;Collier & Cox, 2021;Grove, 2018;Wakefield, 2020). Moreover, by confining their scope of inquiry to the deductive identification of familiar forms associated with neoliberal governance, dominant approaches offer little analytical support in identifying other epistemologies and techniques of power at work in resilience efforts.…”

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“…Here, we suggest that a technopolitical approach, which pays attention to the techniques and strategies deployed in constructing resilience as a problem on which governments can act, is helpful in answering these questions (Collier & Cox, 2021). For one, it shows us that designerly elements—such as calculative devices and synthesis—are irreducible to familiar neoliberal forms, and that outcomes of their use are open‐ended (e.g., Escobar, 2018; Goh, 2021; Heyck, 2015).…”

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Design‐driven resilience and the limits of geographic critique

Cox

Grove

Barnett

2022

Geographical Journal

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In a world of cascading climate catastrophes, shrinking budgets and growing demands for public services, building resilience seems impossible to oppose. The term, as defined by the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) initiative, refers to individual and systemic capacities to anticipate, recover from, and transform amid shocks and stressors. In its six years of operation, 100RC oversaw the development of countless resilience efforts in cities around the world,

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Design‐driven resilience and the limits of geographic critique

Cox

Grove

Barnett

2022

Geographical Journal

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“…Weather-related forms of insurance have in recent years gained growing attention among social scientists. Indeed, there already exists a relatively large body of research discussing how climate change adaptation and mitigation are pursued through different kinds of insurance instruments (Angeli Aguiton 2019;Bridge et al 2020;Collier & Cox 2021;Gray 2021;Lehtonen 2017;Taylor 2020). These studies make it evident how widely shared, among both public and private actors, is the understanding that insurance technology is an obligatory passage point for translating large-scale environmental hazards into actionable issues.…”

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Climate, Society and Elemental Insurance

Booth¹,

Lucas²,

French³

2022

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In this book, world-leading social scientists come together to provide original insights on the capacities and limitations of insurance in a changing world.Climate change is fundamentally changing the ways we insure, and the ways we think about insurance. This book moves beyond traditional economics and financial understandings of insurance to address the social and geopolitical dimensions of this powerful and pervasive part of contemporary life. Insurance shapes material and social realities, and is shaped by them in turn. The contributing authors of this book show how insurance constitutes and is constituted through the traditional elements of earth, water, air, fire, and the novel element of big data. The applied and theoretical insights presented through this novel elemental approach reveal that insurance is more dynamic, multifaceted, and spatially variegated than commonly imagined.This book is an authoritative source on the capacities and limitations of insurance. It is a go-to reference for researchers and students in the social sciences -particularly those with an interest in economics and finance, and how these intersect with geography, politics, and society. It is also relevant for those in the disaster, environmental, health, natural, and social sciences who are interested in the role of insurance in addressing risk, resilience, and adaptation.Kate Booth is a human geographer, specializing in the field of critical insurance studies. She is particularly interested in the economic and social geographies of insurance in a changing climate, and implications for inequality and inequity. Kate has also worked on projects looking at sense of place, and the role of arts and culture in urban regeneration. Her work is published in journals such as Progress in Human Geography, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, Urban Studies, and Qualitative Inquiry.

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“…Particularly, concerning this last point, such a feature is noticeable in the context of different roles and responsibilities of the public and private sector. Policymakers appear to believe that insurance companies may be involved in delivering public policy goals and they advocate their involvement as a solution, especially in times of limited public budgets [10], such as after the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

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Building a Natural Hazard Insurance System (NHIS): The Long-lasting Italian Case

2021

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The worrying growth of extreme natural events and their socioeconomic impact over time is increasingly fuelling the debate on how to manage disasters in view of developing resilient and sustainable societies. One possible financial tool may be represented by insurance against natural hazards, such as earthquakes, floods, and landslides. From this perspective, the current article considers legislative attempts to build a Natural Hazard Insurance System (NHIS) in Italy. The (never promulgated) bills proposed over a time span of about 30 years were analysed by: (a) A text-mining technique, considering the extraction of relevant data for the research; (b) the careful reading of the texts and their cross-correlated critical analysis. Approximately forty bills have been proposed since the 1980s and they mainly concern the proposal of an NHIS based on a certain degree of compulsoriness (the voluntary system is contemplated only on a subordinate basis). Two possible main hurdles to the promulgation of such laws were inferred: the insurance scheme to be adopted and the issue of illegal buildings. Furthermore, the item of natural hazard risk perception was a factor not adequately considered by the bills. Based on the critical scrutiny of the bills and taking advantage of international experiences, the establishment of a voluntary national scheme managed by a public authority with specific competences on NHIS is proposed.

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Governing urban resilience: Insurance and the problematization of climate change

Cited by 23 publications

References 35 publications

Design‐driven resilience and the limits of geographic critique

Design‐driven resilience and the limits of geographic critique

Climate, Society and Elemental Insurance

Building a Natural Hazard Insurance System (NHIS): The Long-lasting Italian Case

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