Research Catalog

Title

Managing environmental risk through insurance / by Paul K. Freeman and Howard Kunreuther.

Author

Freeman, Paul K.

Publication

Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors

Kunreuther, Howard.

Description

xii, 107 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• Managing Environmental Risk Through Insurance 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.

Series Statement

Studies in risk and uncertainty

Uniform Title

Studies in risk and uncertainty.

Subject

• Pollution liability insurance
• Liability for environmental damages
• Hazardous substances > Management
• Risk (Insurance)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. I. Managing Societal Risks -- Introduction: Overview of the Problem. 1. Managing Risk through Government Benefit Programs. 2. Managing Risk through the Legal System. 3. Managing Risk through Insurance -- Pt. II. Managing Environmental Risks -- Introduction: Insuring Environmental Risks. 4. The Insurability and Marketability of Risk. 5. Insuring Asbestos Risk: Background and Identification of Risk. 6. Insuring Asbestos Risk: Insurability and Marketability Conditions. 7. Insuring Other Types of Environmental Risk. 8. Summary and Conclusions.

ISBN

• 0792399013 (alk. paper)
• 0844740195 (pbk. : alk. paper : American Enterprise Institute)

LCCN

97008898

OCLC

• 36351437
• ocm36351437

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries