Managing Environmental Risks through Insurance: Legal and Economic Aspects: 9 (AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation, 9)

Managing Environmental Risks through Insurance: Legal and Economic Aspects: 9 (AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation, 9)
by: Katarzyna Malinowska (Editor),Dorota Maśniak(Editor)
Publisher: Springer
Edition: 2024th
Publication Date: 9 April 2024
Language: English
Print Length: 410 pages
ISBN-10: 3031476018
ISBN-13: 9783031476013
Book Description
This book identifies the role of insurance in a comprehensive system for managing environmental risks at the local, regional and global level. National and international legal instruments regulating environmental protection, especially aspects like pollution, are not precisely reflected in insurance concepts intended to cover environmental risks. As such, there is a need to identify environmental risks and to propose a taxonomy of environmental risks for various types of insurance coverage. The authors refer to the issues of liability in environmental protection, the scope of insurance coverage and comment on specific issues the importance of which has been noticed by the legislator or insurance practice.The book examines these issues horizontally and vertically from various standpoints, focusing on insurance as a means of managing environmental risks. In this regard, it mainly concentrates on (1) identifying and analyzing environmental risks and methods for managing them via private and public instruments, and (2) insuring these risks.The book is intended for all those interested in the field of insurance and environmental risk regimes, including lawyers, academics and legal professionals.