The political economy of natural disaster damage

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 8-19

  Neumayer, Eric ^a   Plümper, Thomas ^b   Barthel, Fabian ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Economic damage; Hazard; Natural disaster; Political economy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894348498     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.03.011     Document Type: Article

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