Improving humanitarian response to slow-onset disasters using famine indexed weather derivatives
This paper illustrates how weather derivatives indexed to forecasts of famine can be designed and used by operational agencies and donors to facilitate timely and reliable financing, for effective emergency response to climate-based, slow-onset disasters such as drought. We provide a general framewo...
| Autores principales: | , , , |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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2008
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| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/910 |
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