Essays about: "weather index insurance"

Found 4 essays containing the words weather index insurance.

  1. 1. Risk, Resilience and Insurance in Sudanese Pastoralism

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Alla Safieldin; [2019]
    Keywords : Climate change adaptation; Disaster risk management; Drought; Index-based livestock insurance; Pastoralism; Risk; Resilience; Sudan; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : The nomadic pastoralists of the Sahel are often identified as a group at the frontline of global climate change. Their existence in arid and semi-arid regions and their reliance on seasonal rainfall are among the factors that contribute to their vulnerability to drought and climate shocks. READ MORE

  3. 2. Accounting for geographic basis risk in agricultural weather index insurance : how kriging prediction may improve protection against climate risk

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Daniel Leppert; [2019]
    Keywords : agricultural economics; geographic basis risk; weather index insurance; kriging; climate change;

    Abstract : Weather index insurance is a potential solution to a widely acknowledged problem of information asymmetries in agricultural crop insurance. Insurance where payouts depend on a weather index relies on accurate estimates of local weather, such as temperature and rainfall. READ MORE

  4. 3. Processing of MODIS Vegetation Indices for analysis of agricultural droughts in the southern Ukraine between the years 2000-2012

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Oleksandr Nekrasov; [2014]
    Keywords : geographic information systems; TVDI; NDVI; agricultural droughts; remote sensing; physical geography and ecosystem analysis; GIS; software development; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : In order to better understand impact of extreme weather events on condition of crop vegetation in Ukraine, analysis of agricultural droughts which occurred in the southern region of Ukraine, between years 2000-2012 was conducted in the current research. Method of the research In the current research, the impact of droughts was analyzed on yearly basis by assessing vegetation conditions and comparing it to soil moisture conditions. READ MORE

  5. 4. Test of the Rossby Centre Regional Atmospheric Climate Model’s Land Surface Scheme

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Fysiska institutionen

    Author : Karolina Nilsson; [2006]
    Keywords : Latent och sensibelt värme i kimatmodeller; Rossby Center; SMHI; Regional atmosfärisk klimatmodell; Global energibalans; Latent and sensible heat; Global energy balance; Regional climate model; Rossby Centre; Physics and Astronomy;

    Abstract : There is an economic interest in the development of reliable climate models that can give us a good estimation of the present and future climate. Farmers, electricity- and insurance- companies are some of the clients that need long term (monthly) weather information from the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI). READ MORE