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Willingness to Pay for Carbon Sequestration and Co-Benefits of Forests in Turkey
Tolunay, Ahmet; Başsüllü, Çağlar - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 3, pp. 3311-3337
Scientists express concern about increasing levels of greenhouse gases mainly due to fossil fuel consumption and deforestation. In response to the latter, policy-makers have introduced a range of policy measures to conserve and enhance forest ecosystems for carbon sequestration. The costs for...
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Total costs and budgetary effects of adaptation to climate change: An assessment for the European Union
Osberghaus, Daniel; Reif, Christiane - 2010
Adaptation to climate change is gaining increasing relevance in the public debate of climate policy. However, detailed and regionalised cost estimates as a basis for cost-benefit-analyses are rare. We compose available cost estimates for adaptation in Europe, and in particular Germany, Finland...
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Optimal crop choice: farmer adaptation to climate change
Soto Arriagada, Leopoldo E. - 2005
I use a Mixed Logit model and the most detailed agricultural data publicly available to show how farmers employ land allocation as an adaptation mechanism in the face of a changing environment. The driving forces behind the farmer's land-use choice are differences between the crops available for...
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Total costs and budgetary effects of adaptation to climate change: An assessment for the European Union
Osberghaus, Daniel; Reif, Christiane - 2010
Adaptation to climate change is gaining increasing relevance in the public debate of climate policy. However, detailed and regionalised cost estimates as a basis for cost-benefit-analyses are rare. We compose available cost estimates for adaptation in Europe, and in particular Germany, Finland...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270648
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Total Costs and Budgetary Effects of Adaptation to Climate Change: An Assessment for the European Union
Osberghaus, Daniel; Reif, Christiane - CESifo - 2010
Adaptation to climate change is gaining increasing relevance in the public debate of climate policy. However, detailed and regionalised cost estimates as a basis for cost-benefit-analyses are rare. We compose available cost estimates for adaptation in Europe, and in particular Germany, Finland...
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Total costs and budgetary effects of adaptation to climate change: An assessment for the European Union
Osberghaus, Daniel; Reif, Christiane - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
Adaptation to climate change is gaining increasing relevance in the public debate of climate policy. However, detailed and regionalised cost estimates as a basis for cost-benefit-analyses are rare. We compose available cost estimates for adaptation in Europe, and in particular Germany, Finland...
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The Health Impacts of Climate Change: A Study of Cholera in Tanzania
Sara L. M. TrÃ?¦rup; Ramon Arigoni OrtizÃ?Â; … - 2010
Increased temperatures and changes in patterns of rainfall as a result of climate change are widely recognized to entail serious consequences for human health, including the risk of diarrheal diseases. Indeed, there is strong evidence that temperature and rainfall patterns affect the disease...
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Developmental Disability Index for Hill States in India
Pandey, Ritu; Dasgupta, Purnamita - eSocialSciences - 2014
Tthe first objective of this study is to construct a cost disability index in provision of developmental infrastructure. The second objective is rooted in the poor state of developmental infrastructure in hill states reflected in widening gaps when compared with non- hill states. [NIPFP Working...
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The Value of Biodiversity in India’s Forests
Sanyal, Sanjeev; Gundimeda, Haripriya; Sinha, Rajiv; … - eSocialSciences - 2007
assess the state of biodiversity in different states in India based on the available data from secondary sources. (2 … forest losses in different Indian states. The paper discusses the biodiversity profile in India, the ways to estimate the … value of biodiversity in India and draws policy implications of the findings of the paper. [Monograph 4] …
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The forestry purposes land in an environmental and economic dimensions within the land management
Furdychko, O.; Bobko, A.; Bobko, A. - In: Balanced Nature Using 15 (2013) 2-3, pp. 5-14
The data analysis of the State Land Cadastre records concerning the land resources distribution in Ukraine by the land owners and users of the «Forests and other wooded areas» accounting category has been performed. In particular, attention has been focused on protective shelterbelts and...
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