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6 After the flood: Diverse discourses of resilience in the United States
and Australia
70
CHLOE LUCAS AND TRAVIS YOUNG
7 Flood insurance: A governance mechanism for supporting equitable
risk reduction and adaptation?
83
MARK KAMMERBAUER AND CHRISTINE WAMSLER
SECTION III
Fire
95
8 Between absence and presence: Questioning the value of insurance
for bushfire recovery
99
SCOTT MCKINNON, CHRISTINE ERIKSEN, AND ELIZA DE VET
9 Is fire insurable? Insights from bushfires in Australia and
wildfires in the United States
111
KENNETH S. KLEIN
10 Fire insurance and the ‘sustainable building’: The environmental
politics of urban fire governance
125
PAT O’MALLEY
SECTION IV
Air
139
11 The relational urban geographies of re/insurance: Florida hurricane
wind risk and the making of Singapore’s catastrophe finance hub
143
ZAC J. TAYLOR
12 Emotions and under-insurance: Exploring reflexivity and
relations with the insurance industry
156
NICK OSBALDISTON
13 Insure the volume? Sensing air, atmospheres, and radiation in the
Chornobyl Exclusion Zone
167
CHRISTINE ERIKSEN AND JONATHON TURNBULL