The economic insurance value of ecosystem resilience

Ecological Economics

Volumn 101, Issue , 2014, Pages 21-32

  Baumgärtner, Stefan ^a   Strunz, Sebastian ^a  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Economic value; Ecosystem; Insurance; Resilience; Risk; Risk preferences

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; VALUATION;

EID: 84895741278     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.02.012     Document Type: Article

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