Index 229
green building industry 133–134
green buildings 128–129
Grenada 44
Grenfell Tower fire in London 5, 125,
135
Growth and Social Protection Strategy
(GSPS) 47
Hancock Natural Resource Group
(HNRG) 20
Hand in Hand 202–203, 206
Hippo 202, 213, 215
Hobart, Australia 4; insurance in 71–72;
managing insurantial uncertainty
72–75; middle class in 4, 80; postflood resilience 79; weather extremes
and insurance in 71–72
home, defined 100
home insurance 100; and disaster
resilience 70; and flood coverage 113;
underwriting 211
homeowners: insured vs. uninsured 91;
insuring dwellings for fire 111–114;
underinsured 114, 116–117
households: impacted by flooding 78;
insurance policies 72; -led disaster
mitigation 99; lower-income 80;
private 85
Houston, United States: Galveston
Storm of 1900 72; Hurricane Harvey
72; Hurricane Ike 72; insurance
entwined with inequality 75–77;
insurance in 71–72; Tropical Storm
Allison 72; weather extremes in 71–72
Hurricane Andrew 146–147
Hurricane Harvey 72, 75
Hurricane Ike 72
Hurricane Irma 47, 146
Hurricane Ivan 44
Hurricane Maria 47
hurricanes: Andrew 146–147; in the
Atlantic Basin 154n3; Galveston
Storm 72; Hurricane Harvey 72, 75;
Hurricane Ike 72; Irma 47, 146; Ivan
44; Maria 47
imaginary 191, 196; insurance 10; insurantial 14–15, 17, 21, 219; ‘schismed’
insurance 10
IMF 47–49
inadequate insurance 78, 114; of dwellings for fire in Australia 114–119; of
dwellings for fire in United States
114–119
inclusion: financial 28; of multi-year
weather cycles 35
Independent West Middlesex Fire 204
index insurance 3, 10; advantage of
29; for agricultural economy 28;
assembling 29–32; and basis risk
31–32; bypassing climate change
with 37; cost efficiency of 29; defined
25; modelling payout ratios 33–37;
objectives 28–29; products 27, 35; risk
model 25; soil 25–37; topologies of
temporality 32–33; usage 26–27; see
also insurance
individual insurance 222–224
industrial life assurance 207, 216n3
inequality 1, 223–224; economic 99;
insurance entwined with 75–77
inequity 1, 140, 224
Ingold, T 10, 140
Institute of Australian Actuaries 113
insurable 111–121
insurance: in actuarialism and finance
1; and architecture of the city 201–
216; bricolage qualities of 2; catastrophe 16, 41–42, 46; and climate change
1; and climate risk 1; criticism of 17;
epistemological narrative in 2–3;
force-placed 112–113; geoengineering as 14–18; and global financial
markets 1; individual and collective
222–224; and insurtech 201–216;
ontological narrative in 2; rational
and emotional 219–221; technical and
political 221–222; as utopian narrative 13–14; weather-related forms of
25; and wellbeing 102–103; see also
specific types
Insurance Council of Australia (ICA)
70, 74, 113, 134
insurance-linked securities (ILS)
144–145, 147, 147–153, 148, 154n2
insurance market: Finnish 189; geoengineering as 14–18; and low premium
volumes 29; and operating costs 29;
private 189; reflexivity and relations
with 156–165
insurance property investment 207–212
insurantial imaginary 14–15, 17, 21, 219
insurantialisation, of governance 49
insured: homeowners, for fire 111–114;
party 29, 31; and recovery 89–90
insurers: emotions and trust in 160–163;
fire 95, 126–131, 222; and flood
resilience 78–79; and international
green building industry 133–134
green buildings 128–129
Grenada 44
Grenfell Tower fire in London 5, 125,
135
Growth and Social Protection Strategy
(GSPS) 47
Hancock Natural Resource Group
(HNRG) 20
Hand in Hand 202–203, 206
Hippo 202, 213, 215
Hobart, Australia 4; insurance in 71–72;
managing insurantial uncertainty
72–75; middle class in 4, 80; postflood resilience 79; weather extremes
and insurance in 71–72
home, defined 100
home insurance 100; and disaster
resilience 70; and flood coverage 113;
underwriting 211
homeowners: insured vs. uninsured 91;
insuring dwellings for fire 111–114;
underinsured 114, 116–117
households: impacted by flooding 78;
insurance policies 72; -led disaster
mitigation 99; lower-income 80;
private 85
Houston, United States: Galveston
Storm of 1900 72; Hurricane Harvey
72; Hurricane Ike 72; insurance
entwined with inequality 75–77;
insurance in 71–72; Tropical Storm
Allison 72; weather extremes in 71–72
Hurricane Andrew 146–147
Hurricane Harvey 72, 75
Hurricane Ike 72
Hurricane Irma 47, 146
Hurricane Ivan 44
Hurricane Maria 47
hurricanes: Andrew 146–147; in the
Atlantic Basin 154n3; Galveston
Storm 72; Hurricane Harvey 72, 75;
Hurricane Ike 72; Irma 47, 146; Ivan
44; Maria 47
imaginary 191, 196; insurance 10; insurantial 14–15, 17, 21, 219; ‘schismed’
insurance 10
IMF 47–49
inadequate insurance 78, 114; of dwellings for fire in Australia 114–119; of
dwellings for fire in United States
114–119
inclusion: financial 28; of multi-year
weather cycles 35
Independent West Middlesex Fire 204
index insurance 3, 10; advantage of
29; for agricultural economy 28;
assembling 29–32; and basis risk
31–32; bypassing climate change
with 37; cost efficiency of 29; defined
25; modelling payout ratios 33–37;
objectives 28–29; products 27, 35; risk
model 25; soil 25–37; topologies of
temporality 32–33; usage 26–27; see
also insurance
individual insurance 222–224
industrial life assurance 207, 216n3
inequality 1, 223–224; economic 99;
insurance entwined with 75–77
inequity 1, 140, 224
Ingold, T 10, 140
Institute of Australian Actuaries 113
insurable 111–121
insurance: in actuarialism and finance
1; and architecture of the city 201–
216; bricolage qualities of 2; catastrophe 16, 41–42, 46; and climate change
1; and climate risk 1; criticism of 17;
epistemological narrative in 2–3;
force-placed 112–113; geoengineering as 14–18; and global financial
markets 1; individual and collective
222–224; and insurtech 201–216;
ontological narrative in 2; rational
and emotional 219–221; technical and
political 221–222; as utopian narrative 13–14; weather-related forms of
25; and wellbeing 102–103; see also
specific types
Insurance Council of Australia (ICA)
70, 74, 113, 134
insurance-linked securities (ILS)
144–145, 147, 147–153, 148, 154n2
insurance market: Finnish 189; geoengineering as 14–18; and low premium
volumes 29; and operating costs 29;
private 189; reflexivity and relations
with 156–165
insurance property investment 207–212
insurantial imaginary 14–15, 17, 21, 219
insurantialisation, of governance 49
insured: homeowners, for fire 111–114;
party 29, 31; and recovery 89–90
insurers: emotions and trust in 160–163;
fire 95, 126–131, 222; and flood
resilience 78–79; and international