Review Article: Economic evaluation of flood damage to agriculture - Review and analysis of existing methods

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2493-2512

  Bremond P ^a   Grelot, F ^a  

^a UMR G EAU   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECISION MAKING; FLOOD DAMAGE; FLOODPLAIN; VALUATION;

EUROPE;

EID: 84885703876     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-13-2493-2013     Document Type: Review

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