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The Development under Climate Change research effort provides a basis for determining quantitative impacts on infrastructure from climate change. This paper provides results of an analysis of sea level rise impacts on road infrastructure in Vietnam. The study utilizes a quantitative approach for...
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The consequences of climate change for agriculture and food security in developing countries are of serious concern. Due to their reliance on rain-fed agriculture both as a source of income and consumption, many low-income countries are generally considered to be most vulnerable to climate...
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to periodic storm surge damage consistent with the current 100-year storm. We conclude that coastal adaptation measures …
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Global food price hikes during 2007 and 2008 resulted in a sharp rise in staple food prices in Bangladesh. The poor and … studies indicated that the adverse effects of the food price hike in Bangladesh were primarily manifested by the significant … rise in the number of households falling below the poverty line income. At the political front, Bangladesh was run by an …
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distribution of damages and slows Bangladesh's long- run shift (adaptation) into dry (winter) season rice production. -- climate …-wide model of Bangladesh, we estimate and decompose damages from historical climate variability and future anthropogenic climate … change ; uncertainty ; stochastic simulation ; CGE model ; agriculture ; Bangladesh …
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The focus of this paper is the role played in rural contexts by contract farming agreements between smallholders and private investors. These contracts can take different forms, but in general are agreements under which producers commit to supply produce to a buyer firm. They are - at least on...
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sizeable and should motivate for action in terms of both mitigation and consideration and funding of potential adaptation …
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liberalization welfare impacts under climate change, and its ability to provide mitigation and/or adaptation to potential losses. Our …
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Maroc Vert, helps in agricultural adaptation to climate change and uncertainty. We develop a regionalized Morocco Computable … 2050, and introduced with respect to a 2003 baseline. With no adaptation, GDP impacts range from -3.1 per cent (worst … contraction in economic aggregates. Accounting for the adaptation measures in the Plan Maroc Vert, the GDP impacts from climate …
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This paper hypothesizes that adaptation to climate change is influenced by the gender of the decision maker of the … household. Using a two-wave household panel survey dataset, choice of adaptation strategies employed by female- and male …-headed households are examined. A multinomial logit model is used to examine factors determining adaptation choices by gender. Findings …
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