The impacts of socioeconomic development and climate change on severe weather catastrophe losses: Mid-Atlantic Region (MAR) and the U.S.

Climatic Change

Volumn 58, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 149-170

  Choi, Onelack ^a   Fisher, Ann ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; HURRICANES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; MODELING; NATURAL DISASTER; SEVERE WEATHER; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037837218     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023459216609     Document Type: Article

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