Jessica Weinkle
Biographic Data
| ID | 3919807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Weinkle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | Weinkle |
| SIGNATURE | WEINKLE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina Wilmington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0996-9948 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
An evaluation of North Carolina science advice on Covid-19 pandemic response
This qualitative case study contributes to the international research project EScAPE (Evaluating Scientific Advice in a Pandemic Emergency) and aims to understand how state leaders mobilized science advice in pandemic response during 2020 and into the early months of 2021. North Carolina, a state in the southeastern United States, mobilized much of its pandemic science advice through the state’s Department of Health and Human Services. A fluid re…
High on the Hill and Down by the River
This work analyzes the relationship between flood risk and wealth in the United States and investigates the mental maps that inform the debate over the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Through historical analysis, it first explores the mental maps employed in NFIP policy debates from the 1960s forward. The common mental maps of the relationship between wealth and flood risk are tested through a geographic analysis using decadal US Census …
Reply to
The riskscapes of re/insurance
Property catastrophe re/insurance plays a crucial yet underexplored role in the governance of disparate geographies of risk. This article extends the concept of the riskscape to the study of re/insurance in two ways. We first develop a four-part framework for understanding re/insurance markets as a series of conjoined riskscapes. Second, we apply this approach to a case study analysis of Florida’s hurricane wind re/insurance market and its restru…
Experts, regulatory capture, and the “governor's dilemma
Using historical context and brief case studies of hurricane risk science, this article illustrates the intimate relationship between the insurance industry and scientific researchers largely assumed to be external to the industry. This paper argues that the extent to which the insurance industry directs, funds, and validates the production and use of science for estimating risk is itself a full blown political enterprise that functions to priori…
Normalized hurricane damage in the continental United States 1900–2017
The new political importance of the old hurricane risk
In the United States, policy-makers struggle to resolve conflict between public demands for affordable insurance costs covering hurricanes and market demands for risk-based insurance pricing. Given the socially constructed nature of risk, a risk-based pricing approach prioritizes insurer values and business practices over all societal value goals expressly limiting democratic inclusion in decision-making about risk. As a step towards the more dem…
The Truthiness about Hurricane Catastrophe Models
In recent years, US policy makers have faced persistent calls for the price of flood and hurricane insurance cover to reflect the true or real risk. The appeal to a true or real measure of risk is rooted in two assumptions. First, scientific research can provide an accurate measure of risk. Second, this information can and should dictate decision-making about the cost of insurance. As a result, contemporary disputes over the cost of catastrophe i…
Experts, regulatory capture, and the “governor's dilemma
Using historical context and brief case studies of hurricane risk science, this article illustrates the intimate relationship between the insurance industry and scientific researchers largely assumed to be external to the industry. This paper argues that the extent to which the insurance industry directs, funds, and validates the production and use of science for estimating risk is itself a full blown political enterprise that functions to priori…
The Truthiness about Hurricane Catastrophe Models
In recent years, US policy makers have faced persistent calls for the price of flood and hurricane insurance cover to reflect the true or real risk. The appeal to a true or real measure of risk is rooted in two assumptions. First, scientific research can provide an accurate measure of risk. Second, this information can and should dictate decision-making about the cost of insurance. As a result, contemporary disputes over the cost of catastrophe i…
The riskscapes of re/insurance
Property catastrophe re/insurance plays a crucial yet underexplored role in the governance of disparate geographies of risk. This article extends the concept of the riskscape to the study of re/insurance in two ways. We first develop a four-part framework for understanding re/insurance markets as a series of conjoined riskscapes. Second, we apply this approach to a case study analysis of Florida’s hurricane wind re/insurance market and its restru…
Normalized hurricane damage in the continental United States 1900–2017
The new political importance of the old hurricane risk
In the United States, policy-makers struggle to resolve conflict between public demands for affordable insurance costs covering hurricanes and market demands for risk-based insurance pricing. Given the socially constructed nature of risk, a risk-based pricing approach prioritizes insurer values and business practices over all societal value goals expressly limiting democratic inclusion in decision-making about risk. As a step towards the more dem…
The new political importance of the old hurricane risk
In the United States, policy-makers struggle to resolve conflict between public demands for affordable insurance costs covering hurricanes and market demands for risk-based insurance pricing. Given the socially constructed nature of risk, a risk-based pricing approach prioritizes insurer values and business practices over all societal value goals expressly limiting democratic inclusion in decision-making about risk. As a step towards the more dem…
The Truthiness about Hurricane Catastrophe Models
In recent years, US policy makers have faced persistent calls for the price of flood and hurricane insurance cover to reflect the true or real risk. The appeal to a true or real measure of risk is rooted in two assumptions. First, scientific research can provide an accurate measure of risk. Second, this information can and should dictate decision-making about the cost of insurance. As a result, contemporary disputes over the cost of catastrophe i…
Normalized hurricane damage in the continental United States 1900–2017
Reply to
The riskscapes of re/insurance
Property catastrophe re/insurance plays a crucial yet underexplored role in the governance of disparate geographies of risk. This article extends the concept of the riskscape to the study of re/insurance in two ways. We first develop a four-part framework for understanding re/insurance markets as a series of conjoined riskscapes. Second, we apply this approach to a case study analysis of Florida’s hurricane wind re/insurance market and its restru…
Experts, regulatory capture, and the “governor's dilemma
Using historical context and brief case studies of hurricane risk science, this article illustrates the intimate relationship between the insurance industry and scientific researchers largely assumed to be external to the industry. This paper argues that the extent to which the insurance industry directs, funds, and validates the production and use of science for estimating risk is itself a full blown political enterprise that functions to priori…
High on the Hill and Down by the River
This work analyzes the relationship between flood risk and wealth in the United States and investigates the mental maps that inform the debate over the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Through historical analysis, it first explores the mental maps employed in NFIP policy debates from the 1960s forward. The common mental maps of the relationship between wealth and flood risk are tested through a geographic analysis using decadal US Census …
An evaluation of North Carolina science advice on Covid-19 pandemic response
This qualitative case study contributes to the international research project EScAPE (Evaluating Scientific Advice in a Pandemic Emergency) and aims to understand how state leaders mobilized science advice in pandemic response during 2020 and into the early months of 2021. North Carolina, a state in the southeastern United States, mobilized much of its pandemic science advice through the state’s Department of Health and Human Services. A fluid re…
Disaster Management and Resilience (8 works) · Flood Risk Assessment and Management (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (5 works) · Actuarial science (4 works) · Finance (4 works) · Law (4 works)