1st Edition

Criminology and Climate Insurance, Finance and the Regulation of Harmscapes

Edited By Cameron Holley, Liam Phelan, Clifford Shearing Copyright 2021
214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the role of the insurance industry in contributing to, and responding to, the harms that climate change has brought and will bring either directly or indirectly. The Anthropocene signifies a new role for humankind: we are the only species that has become a driving force in the planetary system. What might criminology be in the Anthropocene? What does the Anthropocene suggest... Read more

Chapter 1: Dark clouds: Regulatory possibilities

Cameron Holley, Liam Phelan and Clifford Shearing

Chapter 2: Co-creating sustainable risk futures: a role for insurers

Vanessa Otto-Mentz and Johan Strumpfer

Chapter 3: Crime, regulation and climate finance

Neil Gunningham

Chapter 4: Speak loudly and carry a small stick: Prudential regulation and the climate, energy and finance nexus

Darren Sinclair

Chapter 5: The contradictory roles of the insurance industry in the era of climate change

Mathieu Charbonneau and Aaron Doyle

Chapter 6: Quantifying changing climate risks and built environments in Australia: Implications for lenders, insurers and regulators

Karl Mallon and Liam Phelan

Chapter 7: The influence of government regulation on insurers’ responses to climate change

Louise du Toit

Chapter 8: Insurance in the Anthropocene: Exposure, solvency and manoeuvrability

Nicholas Philip Simpson

Chapter 9: Finance actors and climate-related disclosure regulation: Logic, limits and emerging accountability

Megan Bowman. and Daniel Wiseman.

Chapter 10: Towards attribution-based climate insurance: redefining who should pay for weather-related insurance

Mark New, Sylvia Dorbor, Romaric Odoulami. and David Maslo

Biography

Cameron Holley is a Professor at the University of New South Wales Law, UNSW. Cameron works in the areas of environmental law, natural resources law, energy law and water law, with a focus on regulation and governance.

Liam Phelan is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia. Liam researches and teaches in two areas: environmental studies with a particular focus on complexity and climate change, and higher education policy and practice.

Clifford Shearing holds professorships at the Universities of Cape Town, Griffith and Montreal. The principal focus of Clifford's academic work has been on widening criminology’s boundaries, with a primary focus on ‘security governance’. His policy and applied work have been concerned with enhancing safety. His research and writing have become increasingly centred on criminology’s responses to the challenges of the Anthropocene.