Catastrophe insurance and the biopolitics of climate change adaptation

Reframing Climate Change: Constructing Ecological Geopolitics

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 171-187

  Grove, Kevin ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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