Review of Rebecca Elliott 2021: Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States. New York: Columbia University Press.

Abstract

How will the costs of climate change be distributed? In Underwater, Rebecca Elliott shows that examining struggles around the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) can provide a window onto how ‘climate change is and will continue to impact people, communities, and governments’ (p. 190). While mainstream accounts tend to focus on severe disaster events, […]