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Building world narratives for climate change impact, adaptation and vulnerability analyses
Hallegatte, Stéphane; Valentin, Przyluski; … - HAL - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372639
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Optimal growth with adaptation to climate change
Dumas, Patrice; Ha-Duong, Minh - HAL - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820619
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Addressing the climate change sustainable development nexus: the role of multi-stakeholder partnerships
Pinkse, Jonatan; Kolk, Ans - HAL - 2012
While calls are being made to deal with the linkages between climate change and sustainable development to arrive at an integrated policy, concrete steps in this direction have been very limited so far. One of the possible instruments through which both issues may be approached simultaneously is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635203
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Bringing It All Back Home Return migration and fertility choices
BERTOLI, Simone; Marchetta, Francesca - HAL - 2012
Return migration exerts wide-ranging influence upon the countries of origin of the migrants. We analyze whether returnees adjust their fertility choices to match the norms which prevail in their previous countries of destinations, using Egyptian household-level data. Egyptians migrate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393827
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Bringing It All Back Home Return migration and fertility choices
BERTOLI, Simone; Marchetta, Francesca - HAL - 2012
Return migration exerts wide-ranging influence upon the countries of origin of the migrants. We analyze whether returnees adjust their fertility choices to match the norms which prevail in their previous countries of destinations, using Egyptian household-level data. Egyptians migrate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418567
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Why do North African firms involve in corruption ?
Delavallade, Clara - HAL - 2007
This paper empirically analyzes the main microeconomic determinants of different forms of corruption supply. Our study is based on a new database of near 600 Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian firms. We show that the undeclared part of firms' sales is a major factor of their involvement in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750850
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Return Migration and the Survival of Entrepreneurial Activities in Egypt
Marchetta, Francesca - HAL - 2012
The literature shows that temporary international migrants have a high propensity to opt for an entrepreneurial activity upon return, but the prospects of survival of these activities have not been explored. We address this research question using longitudinal Egyptian data. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821266
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Agriculture
Battesti, Vincent; Richards, Alan R. - HAL - 2004
Introduction :Du latin agricultura (ager, champs et cultura, culture), l'agriculture réfère au processus par lesquels des aliments sont cultivés et récoltés. Cela concerne aussi le secteur de l'économie dédié à l'alimentation récoltée.La culture du sol pour la production de récolte...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008789098
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Resilience of groundwater dependent farming systems in a global change context: conceptual framework and empirical study in Morocco
Rinaudo, Jean-Daniel; Castel, Auérlien; Faysse, Nicolas - HAL - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734232
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Multimodal, efficient transportation in airports and collaborative decision making
Marzuoli, Aude; Laplace, Isabelle; Féron, Éric - HAL - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820409