Optimizing crop insurance under climate variability

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2572-2580

  Liu, Juan ^a,d   Men, Chunhua ^a   Cabrera, Victor E ^b   Uryasev, Stan ^a   Fraisse, Clyde W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Florida   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COTTON; INSURANCE; LANTHANUM; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CLIMATE VARIABILITIES; CROP INSURANCES; ENSO PHENOMENONS; FLORIDA; INSURANCE CONTRACTS; INSURANCE COSTS; JACKSON; MARKET PRICES; VALUE AT RISKS;

CROPS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; CROP PRODUCTION; INSURANCE SYSTEM; MODELING; OPTIMIZATION;

ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 57749188223     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1490.1     Document Type: Article

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