Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States

Author/Contributor(s):	Elliott, Rebecca
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	01/05/2021
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.