Modelling extreme climatic events and their economic impacts : a risk management application to China's rural sector

Many economic systems present high levels of vulnerability to weather variability and extreme weather events. On the other hand, the statistics of weather, including of its extreme events, are changing slowly in time. In fact, an increasing body of scientic evidence, derived from both observations a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chavez, Eric
Other Authors: Conway, Gordon ; Makuch, Zen
Published: Imperial College London 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.693945