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Distributional impacts of climate change and disasters : concepts and cases

Ruth, Matthias (ed.); Ibarrarán, María Eugenia (ed.) - 2009

Climate change tends to increase the frequency and intensity of weather-related disasters, which puts many people at risk. Economic, social and environmental impacts further increase vulnerability to disasters and tend to set back development, destroy livelihoods, and increase disparity...

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Changing climate, changing economy

Touffut, Jean-Philippe (contributor) - 2009

both how economics has changed environmental understanding and how the study of climate change has modified the economy … uncertainties / Thomas Schelling -- Comments: Towards an enlightened form of doomsaying / Jean-Pierre Dupuy -- Economics in the … became an economic question / Michel Armatte -- In defence of sensible economics / Thomas Sterner -- Some basic economics of …

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Climate change and agriculture : an economic analysis of global impacts, adaptation and distributional effects

Mendelsohn, Robert O.; Dinar, Ariel - 2009

Despite its great importance, there are surprisingly few economic studies of the impact of climate on agriculture and how agriculture can adapt under a variety of conditions. This book examines 22 countries across four continents, including both developed and developing economies. It provides...

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Carbon sinks and climate change : forests in the fight against global warming

Hunt, Colin - 2009

"Reforestation and avoiding deforestation are methods of harnessing nature to tackle global warming - the greatest challenge facing humankind. In this book, Colin Hunt deals comprehensively with the present and future role of forests in climate change policy and practice. The author provides...

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Environmental taxation and climate change : achieving environmental sustainability through fiscal policy

Kreiser, Lawrence A. (contributor) - 2011

environmental taxation scholars from around the world, this timely volume covers a range of hotly debated subjects including carbon …

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The future of central banking

Kappes, Sylvio (ed.); Rochon, Louis-Philippe (ed.); … - 2022

"Part of the Elgar Series on Central Banking and Monetary Policy, this book explores challenges surrounding central banking today. It goes beyond the immediate concerns with monetary policy and focuses instead on the concept of central banking more generally. Chapter authors explore emerging...

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Elgar encyclopedia of water policy, economics and management

Koundouri, Phoebe (ed.); Alamanos, Angelos (ed.) - 2024 - First edition

governance, agricultural and environmental economics, biodiversity, and marine studies. Key Features: With over 85 entries …

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Global environmental change and agriculture : assessing the impacts

Frisvold, George B. (ed.); Kuhn, Betsey (ed.) - 1999

within the developing world, where agriculture remains a major economic activity. Authors take on an economy-wide perspective …

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Twenty-first century macroeconomics : responding to the climate challenge

Harris, Jonathan M. (ed.); Goodwin, Neva R. (ed.) - 2009

development paths both for rich and poor nations. This volume brings together contributions from scholars around the world to … address these issues. Scholars, researchers and students of economics and development studies along with policymakers and non …

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Global environmental change in alpine regions : recognition, impact, adaptation and mitigation

Steininger, Karl W. (ed.); Weck-Hannemann, Hannelore (ed.) - 2002

services to humanity. In this book, the authors demonstrate how alpine environments throughout the world are particularly … sciences, particularly economics, this book supplies a broad picture of the diverse issues involved. The authors show that … scholars of environmental and resource economics, public management and policy …

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