in all the simulations after 2025. In a second part of the paper a cost effectiveness analysis of adaptation in Nigeria … agriculture is conducted. Adaptation practices considered are a mix of cheaper “soft measures” and more costly “hard” irrigation … adaptation exploiting low cost opportunities. In this case all climate change damages can be offset with a benefit cost ration …

Urban areas have particular sensitivities to climate change, and therefore adaptation to a warming planet represents a … paper identifies the various levels of administrative adaptation planning, the tools and information used in making policy … choices, and the roles of governance and finance in urban adaptation to climate change. Lessons learned from these seven cases …

costs, hide the presence of a third category, namely adaptation costs. This dodges the determination of an appropriate level … for them. Including adaptation costs explicitly in the total environmental cost function allows one to characterize the … for cost benefit analysis of adaptation expenditures. …

The dominant assumption in economic models of climate policy remains that adaptation will be implemented in an optimal … manner. There are, however, several reasons why optimal levels of adaptation may not be attainable. This paper investigates … the effects of suboptimal levels of adaptation, i.e. adaptation restrictions, on the composition and level of climate …

, we show that larger coalitions, in the presence of adaptation, may lead to lower global emission levels and higher …

Nowadays, as stressed by important strategic documents like for instance the 2009 EU White Paper on Adaptation or the … recent 2009 “Copenhagen Accord”, it is amply recognized that both mitigation and adaptation strategies are necessary to … both cases uncertainty works in the direction to make mitigation a more attractive strategy than adaptation. When …

This paper contributes to the normative literature on mitigation and adaptation by framing the question of their … absence of a coordinated global agreement on climate change and to realign the policy balance from adaptation toward more … mitigation. Our analysis also shows that adaptation transfers from and strategic unilateral commitments to adaptation in …

is used to analyze the impact of adaptation assistance from North to South. It is shown that North’s unilateral … assistance to South (thus enhancing South’s adaptation capacity) can facilitate pollution mitigation in both regions, especially …

The paper deals with the social and economic dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptation in Italy. The ultimate … operational tools for dealing with climate change impacts and adaptation from an economic perspective. In order to do so, first a … impacts and adaptation challenges that are likely to be implied by climate change in the next decades. The analysis of the …

environment and the economy in the context of climate change. Although it has also long been recognized that adaptation is a … of adaptation in combating climate change. This paper adds to the IAM and climate change literature by explicitly … including adaptation in an IAM, thereby making the trade-offs between adaptation and mitigation visible. Specifically, a …