How Sensitive are Us Hurricane Damages to Climate? Comment on a Paper by W. D. Nordhaus

Climate Change Economics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-7

  Bouwer, Laurens M ^a   Wouter Botzen, W J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; damage; hurricanes; risk; uncertainty; USA

Indexed keywords

EID: 85073119860     PISSN: 20100078     EISSN: 20100086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S2010007811000188     Document Type: Article

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