. The second part analyses empirically the relationship between climate characteristics, weather extremes and domestic and … the WISE project, a multi-sector research project that investigates the impacts of extreme weather events on the socio … temperature that counts, but also the expectations about future temperature levels; not just the presence of weather extremes, but …

different characteristics of vulnerability to natural disasters and thus requires an extensive variety of disaster risk …

This paper proposes an application of the analytical path assembled within my PhD research on Disaster Risk Creation … challenges, for spatial planning and disaster risk management, in understanding, evaluating, and addressing Disaster Risk (DR … methodological approach benefits from well-established theoretical models of causal analysis of Disaster Risk Creation processes as …

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 …

that up to 60% of the variance in both simulated and observed yields is attributable to weather variation. Majority of the … that show yields to be more weather-sensitive than in the observational record over the predominant range of temperature … uncertainty in historical weather forcings, and is responsible for widely divergent impacts of climate on future crop yields …

We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If … migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it … conditions rather than in short-term weather fluctuations. The data to test these predictions are drawn from two different …