Influence of climate change and socio-economic development on catastrophe insurance: a case study of flood risk scenarios in the Netherlands

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1717-1729

  Paudel, Youbaraj ^a   Botzen, Wouter J W ^a   Aerts, Jeroen C J H ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; Flood insurance; Future scenario; Insurance coverage; Public private insurance; Risk aversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947033783     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-014-0736-3     Document Type: Article

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