CLIMATE RISK AND THE WEATHER MARKET
By various authors
Edited by Bob Dischel
Price: $228.00
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Risk Books
ISBN: 1 899 332 529
Hetco’s Jeff Porter reviews a new weather publication from Risk Books.
Climate Risk and the Weather Market draws together all the relevant issues concerning the development of the weather market. The book’s editor, Bob Dischel, has been involved in this sector since weather derivatives first started trading in autumn 1997, and the list of contributors is
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