Rents, Experiments, and the Perpetual Presence of Concessionary Weather Insurance

• Published in: Annals of the American Association of Geographers Vol. 112; no. 5; pp. 1224 - 1242
• Main Author: Johnson, Leigh
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington Routledge 14.06.2022; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Ability to pay; Archipelagoes; Bicycles; Capital; Climate; Climate change; climate risk; Countryside; Donors; Economics; Extraction; Field tests; financialización; financialization; Geographers; index insurance; Infrastructure; Insurance; Justification; Market prices; protección social; Rent; renta; Rents; riesgo climático; Risk sharing; Rural areas; social protection; Subsidies; Uncertainty; Urgency; Weather; Welfare; índice de aseguramiento; 指数保险; 气候风险; 社会保障; 租金; 金融化

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