On the relation between weather-related disaster impacts, vulnerability and climate change

Climatic Change

Volumn 125, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 461-477

  Visser, Hans ^a   Petersen, Arthur C ^a,b,c   Ligtvoet, Willem ^a  

^a PBL NETHERLANDS ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LOSSES; METEOROLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

ECONOMIC ASSETS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EXTREME WEATHER; EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS; LONG-TERM TREND; NON-STATIONARITIES; NUMBER OF PEOPLES; WEATHER EVENTS;

DISASTERS;

EID: 84905236613     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1179-z     Document Type: Article

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