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A Theoretical Basis for Green Growth
Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper suggests a theoretical model of inclusive green growth. Paper analyses development mechanism through which natural resource capital regenerates (or at least non-degrade) and contributes to economic growth. Climate change is a threat to save natural resources which is a crucial...
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The Economics of Climate Change and Science of Global Warming Debate:African Perspectives
Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
As at today, it is an indisputable fact that the climate is changing and there is a scientific consensus that the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259199
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions of China
Mohajan, Haradhan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Every nation of the world confirms that human-related greenhouse gas emissions are the major driver of the present … global climate change. About 20% populations of the world live in China and the emissions of greenhouse gases of it are very … urbanization. China is now the second largest economy in the world, behind the USA but at present it is facing severe environmental …
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The Macroeconomics evaluation of Climate Change Model (MECC-Model): The case Study of China
Estrada, Ruiz; Arturo, Mario - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Global climate change has a potentially large impact on economic growth but measuring their economic impact is subject to a great deal of uncertainty. The central objective of our paper is to set forth a model – the macroeconomics evaluation of climate change (MECC) model – to evaluate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259690
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Modeling the impact of climate change in hydropower projects’ feasibility valuation
Suarez, Ronny - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this paper a case study is presented to propose an alternative mechanism to include the impact of climate change into the hydropower projects’ feasibility valuation. We started from an independent engineer historical energy generation simulations; therefore, applying mixing unconditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259832
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Reduction of disaster vulnerability through Indigenous knowledge
Pathan, Pervez.A; Khan, A. Razzaq; Razzaq, S; Jariko, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Linking indegenious knowledge of the community with modern techniques to mesure, analyse and reduce disaster vulnerability is one way of engaging and moblising community capacity. This paper discuses he use of the local/ indegenious knowledge into disater management. It suggest a way to moblise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259857
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Discounting, Distribution and Disaggregation
Yamaguchi, Rintaro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
To consider the implication of disaggregated consumption and discounting, we study discounting in a world composed of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260941
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Imposing a unilateral carbon constraint on European energy-intensive industries and its impact on their international competitiveness - data & analysis
Bergmann, Manfred; Schmitz, Andreas; Hayden, Mark; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
the world level) and form parts of vertically integrated and locally-clustered value chains. This tends to increase market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079331
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Global warming: Forecasts by scientists versus scientific forecasts
Green, Kesten C.; Armstrong, J. Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Working Group One, a panel of experts established by the World … predictions of dramatic increases in average world temperatures over the next 92 years and serious harm resulting from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260213
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Managing unknown risks: the future of global reinsurance
Chichilnisky, Graciela; Heal, Geoffrey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
It has been said that insurance is the last of the financial services to accept radical change (Denney [1995-1996]). Yet there has been a fundamental shift in the geographic location and in the organization of the reinsurance industry in the last six years (Chichilnisky [19966]). Global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260252