Assessing risk retention strategies for environmental project management

Environmental Geosciences

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 130-138

  Paleologos, Evan K ^a   Fletcher, Charles D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental projects; Liability; Reserve fund; Risk retention; Risk management strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008231535     PISSN: 10759565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-0984.1999.08049.x     Document Type: Article

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