The story of the moment: Risk averse cypriot farmers respond to drought management

Applied Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 315-326

  Groom, Ben ^a   Koundouri, Phoebe ^b   Nauges, Céline ^c   Thomas, Alban ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; DROUGHT; ESTIMATION METHOD; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKEWNESS; WATER PLANNING; WATER SUPPLY;

ASIA; CYPRUS; EURASIA; KITI; LARNACA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 38549098253     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840600592916     Document Type: Article

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