Vulnerability to climate change hazards and risks: Crop and flood insurance

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 217-226

  McLeman, Robert ^a   Smit, Barry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP YIELD; FLOODING; HAZARD; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RISK;

AUSTRALASIA; CANADA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33744810652     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: 15410064     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0008-3658.2006.00136.x     Document Type: Review

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