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Criminology and Climate: Insurance, Finance and the Regulation of Harmscapes by Cameron Holley & Liam Phelan & Clifford Shearing is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Criminology and Climate: Insurance, Finance and the Regulation of Harmscapes about?

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 for future theory and practice of criminology? Criminology and Climate, as part of Routledge’s Criminology at the Edge Series, seeks to contribute to this research agenda by exploring differing vantage points relevant to thinking within criminology. Contemporary societies are presented with myriad intersecting and interacting climate-related harms at multiple scales. Criminology and Climate brings attention to the finance sector, with a particular focus on the insurance industry as one of its most significant components, in both generating and responding to new climate ‘harmscapes’. Bringing together thought leaders from a variety of disciplines, this book considers what finance and insurance have and might still do, as ‘fulcrum institutions’, to contribute to the realisation of safe and just

Author

Cameron Holley & Liam Phelan & Clifford Shearing

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2020

Language

EN