Managing Environmental Risk Through Insurance

By Paul K. Freeman and Howard C. Kunreuther

Book Overview

This essential and timely guide from Paul K. Freeman and Wharton's Howard Kunreuther tackles one of society's thorniest questions, how to pay for pollution, asbestos exposure, and other environmental damages, by weighing insurance against government benefit programs, tort liability, and regulatory policymaking, and showing why insurability, risk assessment, and market-based incentives may offer smarter, more effective environmental risk management than the tools we rely on today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844740195
• ISBN13: 9780844740195
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: AEI Press
• Length: 107 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"