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

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.

• | Author: Rebecca Elliott
• | Publisher: Columbia University Press
• | Publication Date: January 05, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 296 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0231190263
• | ISBN-13: 9780231190268