Rebecca Elliott is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

• AcknowledgmentsTimeline of EventsIntroduction: Insurance and the Problem of Loss in a Climate-Changed United States1. Transforming the Management of Loss: The Origins of the National Flood Insurance Program2. Losing Ground: Values at Risk in an American Floodplain3. Visions of Loss: Knowing and Pricing Flood Risk4. Shifting Responsibilities for Loss: National Reform of Flood Insurance5. Floodplain Futures: Trajectories of LossConclusion: What Do We Have to Lose?Methodological AppendixNotesIndex

In this essential book, Rebecca Elliott narrates the history of the individualization of risk through an unlikely lens: the de-mutualization of flood insurance in the United States. As rising global temperatures wreak havoc on the climate, those living in the path of storms are increasingly left to deal with the consequences on their own. This is a rich and deeply human story about people and organizations going underwater, learning to make sense of loss and to become ‘resilient’—until the next wave.

Rebecca Elliott is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

• AcknowledgmentsTimeline of EventsIntroduction: Insurance and the Problem of Loss in a Climate-Changed United States1. Transforming the Management of Loss: The Origins of the National Flood Insurance Program2. Losing Ground: Values at Risk in an American Floodplain3. Visions of Loss: Knowing and Pricing Flood Risk4. Shifting Responsibilities for Loss: National Reform of Flood Insurance5. Floodplain Futures: Trajectories of LossConclusion: What Do We Have to Lose?Methodological AppendixNotesIndex

In this essential book, Rebecca Elliott narrates the history of the individualization of risk through an unlikely lens: the de-mutualization of flood insurance in the United States. As rising global temperatures wreak havoc on the climate, those living in the path of storms are increasingly left to deal with the consequences on their own. This is a rich and deeply human story about people and organizations going underwater, learning to make sense of loss and to become ‘resilient’—until the next wave.

Rebecca Elliott is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

• AcknowledgmentsTimeline of EventsIntroduction: Insurance and the Problem of Loss in a Climate-Changed United States1. Transforming the Management of Loss: The Origins of the National Flood Insurance Program2. Losing Ground: Values at Risk in an American Floodplain3. Visions of Loss: Knowing and Pricing Flood Risk4. Shifting Responsibilities for Loss: National Reform of Flood Insurance5. Floodplain Futures: Trajectories of LossConclusion: What Do We Have to Lose?Methodological AppendixNotesIndex

In this essential book, Rebecca Elliott narrates the history of the individualization of risk through an unlikely lens: the de-mutualization of flood insurance in the United States. As rising global temperatures wreak havoc on the climate, those living in the path of storms are increasingly left to deal with the consequences on their own. This is a rich and deeply human story about people and organizations going underwater, learning to make sense of loss and to become ‘resilient’—until the next wave.