Informing micro insurance contract design to mitigate climate change catastrophe risks using choice experiments

Environmental Hazards

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 74-88

  Brouwer, Roy ^a   Akter, Sonia ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NORTH SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Catastrophic flooding; Choice experiment; Climate change; Micro insurance; Risk behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951594918     PISSN: 17477891     EISSN: 18780059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3763/ehaz.2010.SI07     Document Type: Article

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