Adaptation to climate change in the insurance sector: Examples from the UK, Germany and the Netherlands

Natural Hazards

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 315-334

  Keskitalo, E Carina H ^a   Vulturius, Gregor ^a   Scholten, Peter ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Germany; Insurance; The Netherlands; The UK

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893952670     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-013-0912-7     Document Type: Article

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