This paper examines climate change mitigation and adaptation from an insurance industry perspective, with particular reference to London and the USA. It illustrates how British insurers are increasingly shaping public policy and using new technology to manage the risks from climate change impacts and makes a plea for society to make more use of insurance expertise in future decision making. In ...

A phone survey was conducted in New Jersey in 2013 four months after the second of two major devastating tropical storms (Sandy in 2012 and Irene in 2011). The objective was to estimate public support for restricting land uses in flood zones, requiring housing to be built to resist storm waters, and otherwise increasing mitigation and resilience. Respondents who supported these mitigation and r...

While the foundations of climate science and ethics are well established, fine-grained predictions, as policy-decisions, beset with uncertainties. This chapter maps uncertainties classifies them to their ground, extent, location. A typology uncertainty is presented, centered along axes scientific moral uncertainty. illustrated paradigmatic examples in science, ethics, economics. The discusses I...

Public policy research investigates conditions and triggers of change in many ways. Technological developments other innovations are part these drivers but have to be seen the context social, economic, political developments. Although technological is often a long-term process, may occur only abruptly. This can partly attributed fact that major changes usually based on windows, which caused by ...

The US food system functions within a complex nexus of social, political, economic, cultural, and ecological factors. Among them are many dynamic pressures such as population growth, urbanization, socioeconomic inequities, climate disruption, and the increasing demand for resource-intensive foods that place immense strains on public health and the environment. This review focuses on the role th...