'Weather Value at Risk': A uniform approach to describe and compare sectoral income risks from climate change

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 543, Issue , 2016, Pages 1010-1018

  Prettenthaler, Franz ^a   Köberl, Judith ^a   Bird, David Neil ^a  

^a JOANNEUM RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Climate change; Climate variability; Tourism; Weather Value at Risk

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CULTIVATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; RISKS; VALUE ENGINEERING;

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; TOURISM; VALUE AT RISK;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTIVATION; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOURISM;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; INCOME RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; TOURISM; WEATHER;

ITALY; SARDINIA;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84928397648     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.035     Document Type: Article

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