Managing Environmental Risk through Insurance
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....
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N/A Booknews Examines the potential of insurance as a means to obtain compliance with environmental policy, and highlights how insurance and performance standards could influence management of environmental risk. Outlines the role insurance plays in society in contrast to other societal tools for addressing risk, describing the comparative advantages of insurance, then analyzes the insurability of risks and applies insurability analysis to three environmental examples. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
PrefaceForewordAcknowledgementsPt. IManaging Societal RisksIntroduction: Overview of the Problem31Managing Risk through Government Benefit Programs72Managing Risk through the Legal System113Managing Risk through Insurance21Pt. IIManaging Environmental RisksIntroduction: Insuring Enviromental Risks334The Insurability and Marketability of Risk375Insuring Asbestos Risk: Background and Identification of Risk556Insuring Asbestos Risk: Insurability and Marketability Conditions637Insuring Other Types of Environmental Risk758Summary and Conclusions97Index105
\ BooknewsExamines the potential of insurance as a means to obtain compliance with environmental policy, and highlights how insurance and performance standards could influence management of environmental risk. Outlines the role insurance plays in society in contrast to other societal tools for addressing risk, describing the comparative advantages of insurance, then analyzes the insurability of risks and applies insurability analysis to three environmental examples. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
