Natural disasters and the challenge of extreme events: Risk management from an insurance perspective

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

Volumn 364, Issue 1845, 2006, Pages 2147-2165

  Smolka, Anselm ^a  

^a Munchener Ruck   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extreme events; Insurance; Natural disasters; Risk financing; Risk management

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748125326     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1818     Document Type: Review

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