We show that economies may exhibit a strong endogenous macroeconomic adaptation response to climate change. If climate …

adaptation to changing life circumstances. People may adapt or become more sensitive, to different degrees, to a deteriorated … the consequences for optimal climate policies and argues from a normative point of view that psychological adaptation …

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 …

adaptation to changing life circumstances. People may adapt or become more sensitive, to different degrees, to a deteriorated … the consequences for optimal climate policies and argues from a normative point of view that psychological adaptation …

This paper assesses the role of the public sector in adaptation to climate change. We first offer a definition and … categorisation of climate change adaptation. We then consider the primary economic principles that can guide the assignment of … adaptation tasks to either the private or the public sector, as well as those guiding assignment within the public sector itself …

widely unknown. Governments try to cope with these risks by investing in mitigation and adaptation measures. Mitigation aims … at a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions whereas adaptation reduces the follow-up costs of climate change. In contrast … to the existing literature, we explicitly model the decision of risk-averse governments on mitigation and adaptation …

In recent years, sustainability has represented one of the most important policy goals explored in the environmental … specification, namely modified EKC (MEKC), we show that there is an inverted U-shape relationship between sustainability and human …. More interestingly, findings from the estimation show that EKC hypothesis, HD and sustainability are crucial to build …