An exploration of trends in normalized weather-related catastrophe losses

Climate Extremes and Society

Volumn 9780521870283, Issue , 2008, Pages 225-247

  Miller, Stuart ^a   Muir Wood, Robert ^b   Boissonnade, Auguste ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b Risk Management Solutions Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSURANCE; LOSSES;

ANNUAL GROWTH RATE; DATA AVAILABILITY; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; HURRICANE KATRINA; NATURAL DISASTERS; PRIVATE SECTORS; STATISTICAL RELATIONSHIP; UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME;

DISASTERS;

EID: 69649084984     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511535840.014     Document Type: Chapter

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