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This paper provides an overview of the latest developments in methodologies for assessing the vulnerability of coastal zones to climate change at regional and local scales. The focus of vulnerability assessment in coastal zones used to be on erosion and land loss due to sea-level rise....
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highlights the necessity to combine efforts to minimise damage and to integrate adaptation strategies in a broad "Integrated …
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Much of the current policy debate on adaptation to climate change has focussed on estimation of adaptation costs, ways … to raise and to scale-up funding for adaptation, and the design of the international institutional architecture for … adaptation financing. There is however little or no emphasis so far on actual delivery mechanisms to channel these resources at …
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The paper deals with the social and economic dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptation in Italy. The ultimate … operational tools for dealing with climate change impacts and adaptation from an economic perspective. In order to do so, first a … impacts and adaptation challenges that are likely to be implied by climate change in the next decades. The analysis of the …
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This presentation discusses the cost of impacts of climate change on the Caribbean. The response of adaptation will …
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Presentation on climate change adaptation in the Caribbean for a capacity building workshop. Topics discussed include …
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This research agenda outlines pertinent issues needed to produce an informed assessment of the strategies and policies LAC and international organizations should adopt with respect to climate change. The report makes three contributions: i) identifying actions that could be valuable but have not...
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This book is a joint effort lead by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in collaboration with the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) focused on the climate and development challenge for LAC. It deals with a matter that is bound...
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in all the simulations after 2025. In a second part of the paper a cost effectiveness analysis of adaptation in Nigeria … agriculture is conducted. Adaptation practices considered are a mix of cheaper soft measures and more costly hard irrigation … adaptation exploiting low cost opportunities. In this case all climate change damages can be offset with a benefit cost ration …
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Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have delivered meaningful messages with clear implications to the effects of a changing climate. In a nutshell, the authors claim that a 1êC increase in global average temperatures...
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