The damages from climatic extremes in India: do disaster-specific and generic adaptation measures matter?

Environmental Economics and Policy Studies

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 157-177

  Bahinipati, Chandra Sekhar ^a   Patnaik, Unmesh ^b  

^a Gujarat Institute of Development Research (GIDR)   (India)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Disaster risk management programme; Extreme events; Generic adaptation measures; India; Learning effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919838704     PISSN: 1432847X     EISSN: 1867383X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10018-014-0094-x     Document Type: Article

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