Managing Financial Risks in Urban Environments

Managing Financial Risks: From Global to Local

Volumn 9780199557431, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Randalls, Samuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental changes; Flooding; Global finance; Risk management; Thames barrier; Urban environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959907360     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199557431.003.0010     Document Type: Chapter

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