Methods to Assess Costs of Drought Damages and Policies for Drought Mitigation and Adaptation: Review and Recommendations

Water Resources Management

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1707-1720

  Logar, Ivana ^a,b   van den Bergh, Jeroen C J M ^a,c,d,e  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^e VU University   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cost assessment; Droughts; Extreme events; Market and non market valuation methods; Natural hazards

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMERCE; DROUGHT;

ADAPTATION POLICIES; ADOPTING POLICY; COST ASSESSMENT; DROUGHT MITIGATION; ECONOMIC SECTORS; EXTREME EVENTS; NATURAL HAZARD; NON-MARKET VALUATION;

COST ESTIMATING;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; COST; DROUGHT; EXTREME EVENT; NATURAL HAZARD; VALUATION;

EID: 84874995369     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-012-0119-9     Document Type: Article

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