Agriculture insurance in China: History, experience, and lessons learned

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 10-22

  Wang, Ming ^a,b   Shi, Peijun ^a,b   Ye, Tao ^a,b   Liu, Min ^b   Zhou, Meiqin ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

agriculture insurance; agriculture insurance policy; agriculture insurance trial; China; Hunan Province; natural disasters

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867032349     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20950055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13753-011-0007-6     Document Type: Article

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