Catastrophic fixes: cyclical devaluation and accumulation through climate change impacts

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2503-2521

  Johnson, Leigh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

catastrophe models; climate change; devaluation; insurance; spatial fix

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CYCLICITY; ECONOMIC IMPACT; INSURANCE INDUSTRY; MODELING;

EID: 84950327304     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308518X15594800     Document Type: Article

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