Measures of Economic Impacts of Weather Extremes: Getting Better but Far from What is Needed - A Call for Action

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1231-1235+1162

  Changnon, Stanley D ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; FLOOD INSURANCE; PUBLIC POLICY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ECONOMIC IMPACTS;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0142227081     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-84-9-1231     Document Type: Review

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