Natural disaster impacts and fiscal decentralization

Land Economics

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 101-117

  Skidmore, Mark ^a   Toya, Hideki ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DECENTRALIZATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; MORTALITY; NATURAL DISASTER;

EID: 84874959346     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.89.1.101     Document Type: Article

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