Innovation in risk transfer for natural hazards impacting agriculture

Environmental Hazards

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 62-69

  Ibarra, Hector ^a   Skees, Jerry ^b,c  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c GlobalAgRisk Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture risk management

Indexed keywords

INSURANCE SYSTEM; LOW INCOME POPULATION; NATURAL HAZARD; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 34548539324     PISSN: 17477891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envhaz.2007.04.008     Document Type: Article

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