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Sea Level Rise, Radical Uncertainties and Decision-Maker's Liability : The European Coastal Airports Case

Sorokin, Leonid - 2016

Until now, most of the growing climate legal litigations mainly concern environmental associations or victims against energy of energy-users firms or States. However, in a near future, because of exacerbating sudden floods linked to climate change, future litigations could (will) concern...

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A Hybrid Approach to the Valuation of Climate Change Effects on Ecosystem Services : Evidence from the European Forests

Ding, Helen; Silvestri, Silvia; Chiabai, Aline; Nunes, … - 2013

In this paper we present a systematic attempt to assess economic value of climate change impact on forest ecosystems and human welfare. In the present study, climate change impacts are downscaled to the different European countries, which in turn constitute the elements of our analysis. First,...

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Time is of the Essence : Adaptation of Tourism Demand to Climate Change in Europe

Barrios, Salvador - 2014

This study analyses the potential impact of climate change on EU tourism demand and provides long-term (2100) scenarios … affect the relative attractiveness of EU regions for recreational demand. In certain cases, most notably the Southern EU ….45% of GDP per year. On the contrary, other areas of the EU, most notably Northern European countries would gain from altered …

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Quantifying the Ancillary Benefits of the Representative Concentration Pathways on Air Quality in Europe

Ščasný, Milan - 2016

This paper presents estimates of the economic benefit of air quality improvements in Europe that occur as a side effect of GHG emission reductions. We consider three climate policy scenarios that reach radiative forcing levels in 2100 of three Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs). These...

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Urban Sprawl and Air Quality in European Cities : An Empirical Assessment

Cappelli, Federica; Guastella, Gianni; Pareglio, Stefano - 2021

In this paper we estimate the relationship between urban sprawl and a measure of air quality, namely the number of days in which the PM10 concentration exceeds safeguard limits in European Union cities. Building on a multidimensional representation of sprawl, the paper employs several indicators...

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