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potential tradeoff between countries’ investments in mitigation versus adaptation. While mitigation of greenhouse gases can be … viewed as a public good, adaptation to climate change is a private good, benefiting only the country or the individual that … invests in adaptation. We use a one-shot public-goods game that deviates from the standard public-goods game by introducing a …
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. Adaptation and mitigation based on organic agriculture can build on well-established practice because organic agriculture is a …. The financial requirements of organic agriculture as an adaptation or mitigation strategy are low. Further research is …Organic agriculture, as an adaptation strategy to climate change and variability, is a concrete and promising option …
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change has been negligible to date, but the potential to contribute to mitigation climate change at the regional level is …
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Much of the guidance about potential impacts of reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) speculates how efforts would be implemented and draws lessons from other mechanisms, such as payments for ecosystem services (PES). However, with few REDD activities underway, little...
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Tourism associated with beaches, protected areas, and other natural resources often has serious environmental impacts …. The problem is especially acute in developing countries, where nature-based tourism is increasingly important and … environmental regulation is typically weak. Eco-certification programs—voluntary initiatives certifying that tourism operators meet …
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Drawing on the method developed by Just and Pope (1978, 1979), this paper separately analyzes the marginal contributions of both regular input factors and climate factors to mean output and to production risk in Chinese inland aquaculture. Furthermore, the net change in output following a 1°C...
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This paper employs the production function-based method proposed by Just and Pope (1978, 1979) to explicitly analyze production risk in the context of Chinese grain farming and climate change, and test for potential endogeneity of climate factors in Chinese grain production. Our results indicate...
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This paper examines regulation in the presence of adjustment costs and resource scarcity, allowing for imperfectly informed firms. I find strong evidence that announcement of future environmental regulation will reduce current emissions in the combined presence of resource scarcity and...
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Linkage of cap-and-trade systems is typically advocated by economists on a general analogy with the beneficial linking of free-trade areas and on the specific grounds that linkage will ensure cost effectiveness among the linked jurisdictions. An appropriate and widely accepted specification for...
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We use a two-period model to investigate intertemporal effects of cost reductions in climate change mitigation …
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