Management of climate risks in agriculture - will weather derivatives permeate?

Applied Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1067-1077

  Musshoff, Oliver ^a   Odening, Martin ^b   Xu, Wei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CROP PRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTICITY; WHEAT;

GERMANY;

IXODIDA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 79956133854     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840802600210     Document Type: Article

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