Should marine insurance companies take seriously chaos theory?

Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 312-319

  Goulielmos, Alexander M ^a   Giziakis, Constantine ^a   Pasarzis, Michalis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Accidents; Chaos; Disasters; Insurance companies; Marine transport; Random variables; Shipping

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949765248     PISSN: 09653562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09653560210447008     Document Type: Article

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