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paper reviews and characterizes climate change adaptation modeling of forestry and pasture land use by IAMs, as well as … yielded insights regarding adaptation's potential for reducing risks, and possibly generating societal benefits. Empirical … modeling will be important going forward to identify adaptation options and provide an observation based grounding for IAM …
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, and adaptation to temperature extremes. The objectives of the paper are to highlight the many remaining gaps in the … to incorporate human health and adaptation in its framework. I begin by presenting the conceptual and methodological … issues associated with the measurement of the effect of temperature extremes on health, and the role of adaptation in …
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We provide counterexamples to the idea that mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, and adaptation to climate change … process with positive drift and mitigation is lumpy. Climate damages can be affected by adaptation in two main ways: 1 … variance of the climate damage are both reduced by adaptation. In case 1, the variance effect (which leads to more rapid …
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In this paper we discuss the scope of the adaptation challenge facing world agriculture in the coming decades. Due to … rising temperatures throughout the tropics, pressures for adaptation will be greatest in some of the poorest parts of the … adaptation in the farm and food sector. In general, we find that existing integrated assessment models are better suited to …
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adaptation to climate change for incorporation into integrated assessment modeling efforts. We review the existing literature on …, and the ability of adaptation to mitigate those impacts. Since adaptive responses will be implemented largely by local … describes the potential contributions of linking existing and new empirical research on water resource adaptation with IAMs. The …
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This paper reviews empirical research on migration and land use impacts associated with climate change. Household migration arises due to changes in economic opportunities and climate amenities resulting from climate change. Throughout the paper, efforts are made to highlight key empirical...
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This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between climate and the energy sector. In particular, we primarily discuss empirical papers published in peer-reviewed economics journals focusing on how climate affects energy expenditures and consumption. Climate will affect energy...
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The climate change impacts on sea level rise and coastal disasters, and the possible adaptation responses have been …
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recent research that looks at the longer term changes in climate and attempts to measure adaptation. …
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Increasing attention is being given to the option of engineering the climate via Solar Radiation Management (SRM) as a potential component in future climate policies. We set up a quantitative model to analyze efficient levels of SRM deployment against the climatic and economic background...
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