Modeling the regional economic loss of natural disasters: The search for economic hotspots

Economic Systems Research

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 163-181

  Yamano, Norihiko ^a   Kajitani, Yoshio ^a   Shumuta, Yoshiharu ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

District level data; Economic hotspots; Multiregional input output model; Natural disaster

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC IMPACT; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; NATURAL DISASTER; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 34249846272     PISSN: 09535314     EISSN: 14695758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09535310701330191     Document Type: Article

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