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The impacts of climate change on human systems depend not only on the level of emissions but also on how inherently vulnerable these systems are to the changing climate. The large uncertainties over future development and structure of societies and economies mean that the assessment of climate...
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address existing regulatory, participation, resource and learning gaps as it harnesses the strengths of private, public and …
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efficiency losses and investment in adaptation measures, which can become sunk costs when climate changes even more. Simulations … remind that adaptation should be proactive rather than reactive: protection measures installed today are not designed for …
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Learning – i.e. the acquisition of new information that leads to changes in our assessment of uncertainty – plays a … more continues to be influential. The latest work on learning and climate change includes new theoretical models, better … informed simulations of how learning affects the optimal timing of emissions reductions, analyses of how new information could …
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developed as a benchmark case. The concept of MPNE is then enhanced with adaptive learning about the environmental dynamics and …
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The paper focuses on the early career patterns of young male and female workers. It investigates potential dynamic links between statistical discrimination, mobility, tenure and wage profiles. The model assumes that it is more costly for an employer to assess female workers' productivity and...
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We conducted asset market experiments where one experienced subject (EH) interacts with five inexperienced subjects (1EH5H) to investigate how EHs change their price forecasts and trading strategies when faced with strategic uncertainty caused by inflows of inexperienced subjects. Only half the...
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This communication presents a framework to analyse the resilience of irrigated farms in Morrocco. It first presents a … conceptual framework to analyse resilience at the farm level. The framework is then applied to a sample of farmers which were … and plan actions needed to enhance their resilience, others would only call for State intervention or even consider …
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Be it snow, volcanic ash or strikes, crisis events impose high costs on the air transport system and society. Airlines have progressively learned to mitigate the irregular operations arising from such events through procedures such as Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) for traffic flow and...
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As an answer to a need expressed by the UN General Assembly an Economic Vulnerability Index (EVI) has been defined by the Committee for Development Policy. The present paper, which refers to this index, first examines how a structural economic vulnerability index can be designed, in particular...
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