A forest management risk insurance model and its application to coniferous stands in southwest Germany

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 161-174

  Holecy, Jan ^a   Hanewinkel, Marc ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN ZVOLEN   (Slovakia)

^b Baden Württemberg Forest Research Institute   (Germany)

Author keywords

Destruction probabilities; Risk insurance premiums; Storm damage

Indexed keywords

DESTRUCTION PROBABILITIES; RISK INSURANCE PREMIUMS; STORM DAMAGE;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS;

FORESTRY;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33644645630     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2004.05.009     Document Type: Article

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