Vulnerabilities to agricultural production shocks: An extreme, plausible scenario for assessment of risk for the insurance sector

Climate Risk Management

Volumn 13, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-9

  Lunt, Tobias ^a   Jones, Aled W ^b   Mulhern, William S ^a   Lezaks, David P M ^a   Jahn, Molly M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Breadbasket failure; Climate extremes; Insurance; Scenario

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973517714     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22120963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crm.2016.05.001     Document Type: Article

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