The robustness of flood insurance regimes given changing risk resulting from climate change

Climate Risk Management

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-10

  Lamond, Jessica ^a   Penning Rowsell, Edmund ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Disaster risk reduction; Floods prediction planning; Insurance and risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900456980     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22120963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crm.2014.03.001     Document Type: Article

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