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Managing Environmental Risk Through Insurance

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Authors:
  1. Paul K. Freeman

    1. Eric Group, Inc., USA

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  2. Howard Kunreuther

    1. University of Pennsylvania, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies in Risk and Uncertainty (SIRU, volume 9)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Managing Societal Risks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction to Part I: Overview of the Problem

      • Paul K. Freeman, Howard Kunreuther
      Pages 3-6

    3. Managing Risk Through Government Benefit Programs

      • Paul K. Freeman, Howard Kunreuther
      Pages 7-10

    4. Managing Risk Through the Legal System

      • Paul K. Freeman, Howard Kunreuther
      Pages 11-20

    5. Managing Risk through Insurance

      • Paul K. Freeman, Howard Kunreuther
      Pages 21-30

  3. Managing Environmental Risks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. Introduction to Part II: Insuring Environmental Risks

      • Paul K. Freeman, Howard Kunreuther
      Pages 33-35

    3. The Insurability and Marketability of Risk

      • Paul K. Freeman, Howard Kunreuther
      Pages 37-53

    4. Insuring Asbestos Risk: Background and Identification of Risk

      • Paul K. Freeman, Howard Kunreuther
      Pages 55-62

    5. Insuring Asbestos Risk: Insurability and Marketability Conditions

      • Paul K. Freeman, Howard Kunreuther
      Pages 63-73

    6. Insuring Other Types of Environmental Risk

      • Paul K. Freeman, Howard Kunreuther
      Pages 75-96

    7. Summary and Conclusions

      • Paul K. Freeman, Howard Kunreuther
      Pages 97-103

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 105-107
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About this book

Can insurance be used as a means to obtain compliance with environmental policy? Answering this question requires examination of a broad mosaic of academic issues, including current systems available for providing compensation and deterrence, use of contracts (including insurance) as substitutes for tort law, limitations of regulatory policy-making by government agencies, pre-conditions for creation of insurance products, and market mechanisms necessary for insurance to be purchased or sold. The purpose of Managing Environmental Risk Through Insurance is to highlight the potential role that insurance and performance standards can play in managing environmental risk. Insurance can play a significant role in dealing with one of the most problematic issues facing society today - how to compensate for environmental exposures.
This book analyzes the ability of insurance to play a role in managing environmental risk. It begins by outlining the role insurance plays in society in contrast to other societal tools for addressing risk: government benefit programs and imposition of involuntary liability using the court system. By so doing, the book describes the comparative advantages of insurance. The book then analyzes the insurability of the risks. Finally, the book applies the insurability analysis to three concrete environmental examples.

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`...this is an extremely timely book whose message deserves serious attention by policy makers and politicians.'
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 41:5 (1998)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Eric Group, Inc., USA

    Paul K. Freeman

  • University of Pennsylvania, USA

    Howard Kunreuther

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Managing Environmental Risk Through Insurance

  • Authors: Paul K. Freeman, Howard Kunreuther

  • Series Title: Studies in Risk and Uncertainty

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5360-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-9901-8Published: 30 June 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-6253-4Published: 12 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-5360-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0926-972X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 107

  • Topics: Environmental Economics, Finance, general, Economic Policy

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