Insurance and the Anthropocene: like a frog in hot water

Includes bibliographical references === This thesis explores the relationship between the commercial insurance industry, global environmental change (GEC) and what Beck (1992; 1999) termed the 'risk society'. In recent decades, there have been growing concerns that many of the risks impact...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Herbstein, Tom Philip
Other Authors: Shearing, Clifford D
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16571