Financial instruments for disaster risk management and climate change adaptation

Climatic Change

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 85-100

  Linnerooth Bayer, Joanne ^a   Hochrainer Stigler, Stefan ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISASTERS; FINANCE; RISK MANAGEMENT;

CHANGING CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; CLIMATE EXTREMES; DIFFERENT LAYERS; DISASTER RISK REDUCTIONS; FINANCING MECHANISMS; FUTURE PROSPECTS; POVERTY REDUCTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84951884810     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-1035-6     Document Type: Article

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