Abstract

This paper unpacks the emergence of pro-poor insurance-based climate change adaptation initiatives within development and disaster management agencies. It details how the equation between insurance and ethical climate change adaptation emerged through development economists’ moral and technical critique of ex post disaster relief, which positioned insurers’ unique styles of thought and practice as ethical and technical solutions to the problem of how to manage the state’s financial capacity. However, an example of Dominican disaster budgeting demonstrates how insurantialized disaster governance both compliments and contrasts with alternative disaster financing strategies based in Caribbean states’ efforts to create autonomy from plantation dependencies. In the contemporary Caribbean, the moral imperative to become economically self-sufficient reconfigures state-donor-market-society relations in ways that further hollow out Caribbean states’ political independence.

摘要

本文探讨了在发展和灾难管理机构中基于扶贫保险的气候变化适应计划的兴起。它详细介绍了如何通过发展经济学家对事后的道德和技术批判来提出保险与气候变化伦理适应之间的等式。救灾，将保险公司独特的思想和实践风格定位为解决国家财务能力管理问题的道德和技术解决方案。但是，以多米尼加灾难预算为例，这说明了保险化的灾难治理如何与加勒比海国家从种植园依赖中创造自治的努力中的替代性灾难融资策略既相辅相成，又相映成趣。在当代加勒比海地区，要实现经济上的自给自足，就必须在道德上重新配置国家与捐助者，市场，社会之间的关系，以进一步削弱加勒比海国家的政治独立性。