A trend analysis of normalized insured damage from natural disasters

Climatic Change

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 215-237

  Barthel, Fabian ^a   Neumayer, Eric ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; GERMANY; GLOBAL LEVELS; INSURANCE INDUSTRY; INSURED LOSS; NATURAL DISASTERS; NATURAL HAZARD; SCALING-UP; TREND ANALYSIS; UPWARD TREND; WEALTH ACCUMULATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DAMAGE DETECTION; HAZARDS; INSURANCE;

DISASTERS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; NATURAL DISASTER; TEMPORAL PERIOD; TREND ANALYSIS;

GERMANY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862128634     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0331-2     Document Type: Article

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