adaptation exploiting low cost opportunities. In this case all climate change damages can be offset with a benefit cost ration …The present research offers an economic assessment of climate change impacts on the four major crop families …. Uncertainty on future climate is captured, using, as input, yield changes computed by a crop model, covering the whole range of …

Urban areas have particular sensitivities to climate change, and therefore adaptation to a warming planet represents a … choices, and the roles of governance and finance in urban adaptation to climate change. Lessons learned from these seven cases … challenging new issue for urban policy makers in both the developed and developing world. Further to climate mitigation strategies …

The usually assumed two categories of costs involved in climate change policy analysis, namely abatement and damage … 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 …

The dominant assumption in economic models of climate policy remains that adaptation will be implemented in an optimal … the effects of suboptimal levels of adaptation, i.e. adaptation restrictions, on the composition and level of climate … is investigated. When adaptation is not possible at extreme levels of climate change, it is cost-effective to use more …

We show that adaptive measures undertaken by countries in the face of climate change, apart from directly reducing the … damage caused by climate change, may also indirectly mitigate greenhouse gas emissions by increasing the stable size of …, 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 … combat climate change. This paper enriches the rapidly expanding literature trying to devise normative indications on the …

absence of a coordinated global agreement on climate change and to realign the policy balance from adaptation toward more …This paper contributes to the normative literature on mitigation and adaptation by framing the question of their … optimal policy balance in the context of catastrophic climate risk. The analysis uses the WITCH integrated assessment model …

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 … powerful and necessary tool to combat the adverse effects of climate change, most IAMs have not explicitly included the option …