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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 1°C increase in global average temperatures...
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This paper considers the challenges confronting LDCs in meeting the adaptation and mitigation requirements brought on … source of LDC climate adaptation finance, is still fit for purpose? …
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Adaptation Plans of Action in the context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change but implementation of … those programmes and strategic links to resourcing actions are often lacking. Adaptation in the agricultural sector can be … term adaptation strategy. Organic agriculture is believed to be the most sustainable approach against climate change …
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continuously. This time adaptation is getting more and more attention to reduce the socio economic vulnerability and risks … associated with the climate change. Adaptation is unavoidable. This paper enumerates the literature review of Adaptation … why adaptation is necessary and its implications in coping the climate change challenges and what progress has been made …
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patterns and options for the future, the community-based adaptation process should nevertheless be initiated. This requires …, transfer of already available technologies to the user community should be the immediate priority. 3. The local adaptation plan … of action (LAPA) is an effective means to mainstream adaptation options in national and local governmental plans, and to …
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Site Specific Technologies (SST) can reduce environmental pollution caused by common agricultural practice. Using a case study for corn yields, we investigate the impact of climate change (CC) on profitability of SSTs. We find CC to increase spatial variability of soils with respect to optimal...
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In this paper we present a model of international environmental agreements in the presence of threshold effects. The model is in the tradition of models of international environmental agreements formulated as games in partition function form. Games in partition function form allow the...
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The great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) earthquake, which occurred in 1995, resulted in tremendous economic damage to the city of Kobe. Using individual-level data of Japan during the period 2000–08, I investigated the long-term impact of the earthquake on the happiness of surviving victims. After...
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Every nation of the world confirms that human-related greenhouse gas emissions are the major driver of the present global climate change. About 20% populations of the world live in China and the emissions of greenhouse gases of it are very high due to the large population, inefficient capital...
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To consider the implication of disaggregated consumption and discounting, we study discounting in a world composed of the rich and the poor, a standard setting in the literature of cost-benefit analysis with distributional considerations. We derive several discount rates for different...
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