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Can a Growing World Be Fed When the Climate Is Changing?
Dietz, Simon; Lanz, Bruno - 2019
climate change. This is despite substantial adaptation having taken place in general equilibrium through R&D and agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179785
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Climate Change and the Caribbean: Areas of Intervention: Financing for the Caribbean Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Unit (ECC), Infrastructure and Environment Department (IN...
Alleng, Gerard - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This presentation discusses the cost of impacts of climate change on the Caribbean. The response of adaptation will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294058
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Climate Change Adaptation and Water Resources in the Caribbean Region
Charlery, John - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
Presentation on climate change adaptation in the Caribbean for a capacity building workshop. Topics discussed include …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010673043
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Climate Change: A Research Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean
Chisari, Omar O.; Galiani, Sebastián - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This research agenda outlines pertinent issues needed to produce an informed assessment of the strategies and policies LAC and international organizations should adopt with respect to climate change. The report makes three contributions: i) identifying actions that could be valuable but have not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010674069
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The Climate and Development Challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean: Options for Climate-Resilient, Low-Carbon Development
Vergara, Walter; Rios, Ana R.; Paliza, Luis Miguel Galindo - Inter-American Development Bank
This book is a joint effort lead by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in collaboration with the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) focused on the climate and development challenge for LAC. It deals with a matter that is bound...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772468
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Body Mass, Nutrition, and Disease : Current Net Nutrition During Us Economic Development
Carson, Scott A. - 2020
When other measures for material welfare are scarce or unreliable, the use of average stature and body mass index (BMI) values is common. BMI reflects the current difference between calories consumed, calories required for work, and to withstand the physical environment. This study evaluates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826046
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Epidemic Exposure, Fintech Adoption, and the Digital Divide
Saka, Orkun; Eichengreen, Barry; Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2021
We ask whether epidemic exposure leads to a shift in financial technology usage within and across countries and if so who participates in this shift. We exploit a dataset combining Gallup World Polls and Global Findex surveys for some 250,000 individuals in 140 countries, merging them with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219076
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The Intricacy of Adapting to Climate Change: Flood Protection as a Local Public Goods Game
Bondarev, Anton; Hintermann, Beat; Krysiak, Frank C.; … - 2017
We study adaptation to climate change in a federalist setting. To protect themselves against an increase in flood risk …, regional governments choose among adaptation measures that vary with respect to their costs, the level of protection they offer … response to specific proposals. If it has to deduce the vulnerability of regions by their actions, the resulting adaptation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615937
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An Economic Anatomy of Optimal Climate Policy
Moreno-Cruz, Juan; Wagner, Gernot; Keith, David W. - 2018
mitigation and adaptation, carbon and solar geoengineering span the universe of possible climate policies. Their wildly different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872116
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Total costs and budgetary effects of adaptation to climate change: An assessment for the European Union
Osberghaus, Daniel; Reif, Christiane - 2010
Adaptation to climate change is gaining increasing relevance in the public debate of climate policy. However, detailed … adaptation in Europe, and in particular Germany, Finland and Italy. Furthermore, a systematic overview on fiscal aspects of … adaptation is provided, with focus on budgetary effects of adaptation in the different impact sectors. Combining cost estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270648