In Europe, economic evaluation of flood management projects is becoming a commonly used decision tool. At the same time …, flood management policies shift towards new concepts such as giving more room to water by restoring floodplain and living … damage on agriculture may have a high influence on the efficiency of these policies, flood damage assessment on agricultural …

assess the risk mitigation capacity of weather index-based insurance for cotton farmers. We compare the ability of various … give a tractable definition of basis risk and use it to show that weather index-based insurance is associated with a large … significantly decreases the basis risk, compared to using simulated sowing dates. Finally we found that the gain of the weather …

assess the risk mitigation capacity of weather index-based insurance for cotton farmers. We compare the ability of various … give a tractable definition of basis risk and use it to show that weather index-based insurance is associated with a large … dates. Finally we find that the gain of the weather-index based insurance is lower than that of hedging against cotton price …

As a tool to fight long run changes in climate the European Union explicitly introduced the emission trading scheme (EU …, results underline the limited impact of weather on the interconnection of these markets. …

Urbanization and poverty have a two-way relationship. Using fixed-effects regression andpanel data from household … surveys, we estimate the effect of urbanization on welfare andpoverty of rural households in Vietnam. We find that … urbanization tends to increaselandlessness of rural households and to reduce their farm income. However, urbanizationhelps rural …

The objective of this paper is to investigate the impacts of urbanization on human capital andeconomic growth in Africa …. It seeks to contribute to the urbanization-growth debate byinvestigating how urbanization is linked to human capital … accumulation and economic growth.More precisely, compared to previous studies on the urbanization-growth nexus, we (i …

. This attracted migrants to producing areas and the economic surplus drove urbanization. Using data at a very fine spatial … show that the economic boom in cocoa-producing areas was associated with demographic growth and urbanization. We _nd no …

Past and current experiences can be studied in order to understand the main phenomena driving urbanization and thus to …