Reconciliation of trends in global and regional economic losses from weather events: 1980-2008

Natural Hazards Review

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Mohleji, Shalini ^a   Pielke, Roger ^b  

^a American Meteorological Society   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Attribution; Climate change; Disaster; Economic losses; Reinsurance; Socioeconomics

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; LOSSES; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGIONAL PLANNING; STORMS; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

ATTRIBUTION; ECONOMIC LOSS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; POPULATION GROWTH; REGIONAL ECONOMIC; REINSURANCE; SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTOR; SOCIO-ECONOMICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE EFFECT; COST ANALYSIS; DATA SET; FINANCIAL CRISIS; FLOOD DAMAGE; GLOBAL CHANGE; HURRICANE; INSURANCE INDUSTRY; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; STORM DAMAGE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ASIA; AUSTRALIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84911873442     PISSN: 15276988     EISSN: 15276996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000141     Document Type: Article

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