Windstorm and storm surges in Europe: Loss trends and possible counter-actions from the viewpoint of an international reinsurer

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1831, 2005, Pages 1431-1440

  Berz, Gerhard ^a  

^a Munchener Ruck   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Disaster losses; Disaster trends; Reinsurance; Storm surge; Windstorm

Indexed keywords

EID: 23444447649     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2005.1577     Document Type: Article

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