Climate change and natural disasters: Economic and distributional impacts

Distributional Impacts of Climate Change and Disasters: Concepts and Cases

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 46-66

  Ibarrarán, María E ^a   Ruth, Matthias ^b,c  

^a Maestro en Diseño Industrial UNAM México   (Mexico)

^b DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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