The effects of extreme weather events, such as heat waves and droughts, are taken into account in both global and … emerging risks of extreme weather events, in particular, droughts and high temperatures, for the German power sector. Our … analysis is based on extensive datasets comprising temperature and drought data for the last 40 years. We find evidence of a …

The ongoing process of climate change goes along with a higher frequency and/or severity of droughts. While the short …-term growth consequences of droughts are comparatively well examined, little research has yet been devoted to the question whether … and how droughts affect medium and long-term growth. However, knowledge on the growth dynamics triggered by natural …

conflict. Droughts are a major driver of conflict in Africa, particularly between nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers … Kenya provides automated, preemptive payouts to pastoralists affected by droughts. Combining plausibly exogenous variation … drought-induced conflict. One key mechanism is that insured pastoralists travel less far away from their ancestral homelands …

I propose a new conceptual framework to disentangle the impacts of weather and climate on economic activity and growth …: A stochastic frontier model with climate in the production frontier and weather shocks as a source of inefficiency. I … in both rich and poor countries; positively in cold countries and negatively in hot ones. Weather anomalies reduce …

average treatment effects and strong spatial spillovers, particularly for weather shocks. Moreover, substantial heterogeneity …

objective of this paper is to examine the inter-linkages between weather, disasters, and migration, in India. To examine the …Extreme weather induced migration is a growing concern for low and middle income countries due to the increased … variability in the weather and the increase in the number of extreme weather disasters associated with climate change. The …

There is limited public discourse and understanding about the history and science of weather and climate intervention …, though scientists have researched, tested and implemented numerous methods of weather modification for six decades. Also … change and associated increasing occurrence of extreme weather events, there has not been a more providential moment to …