Insuring large-scale floods in the Netherlands

Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 250-268

  Jongejan, Ruben ^a   Barrieu, Pauline ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flood insurance; Flood protection; Large scale risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 41849088436     PISSN: 10185895     EISSN: 14680440     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/gpp.2008.10     Document Type: Article

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