Risky Business: Adapting Insurance Markets to Wildfire and Flood Risk with Dr. Carolyn Kousky

Summary: Podcast host Doug Parsons interviews Dr. Carolyn Kousky, the Exec. Dir. at the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at the Univ. of Pennsylvania. Doug and Carolyn discuss: how wildfires in California drove their utility into bankruptcy and what policy reforms are needed; who owns the legal risks of climate change; needed disaster aid reform; the dysfunctional nature of flood insurance and the need to help low income households get access to disaster insurance. And much more!