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Modelling Agricultural Production Risk and the Adaptation to Climate Change
Finger, Robert; Schmid, Stéphanie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
A model that integrates biophysical simulations in an economic model is used to analyze the impact of climate change on crop production. The biophysical model simulates future plant-management-climate relationships and the economic model simulates farmers’ adaptation actions to climate change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005786971
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What Are the Carbon Emissions Elasticities for Income and Population? Bridging STIRPAT and EKC via robust heterogeneous panel estimates
Liddle, Brantley - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Knowledge of the carbon emissions elasticities of income and population is important both for climate change policy/negotiations and for generating projections of carbon emissions. However, previous estimations of these elasticities using the well-known STIRPAT framework have produced such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118526
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Discounting, Distribution and Disaggregation
Yamaguchi, Rintaro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
To consider the implication of disaggregated consumption and discounting, we study discounting in a world composed of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260941
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Health, income inequality and climate related disasters at household level: reflections from an Orissa District
Narayanan, K.; Sahu, Santosh Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Rural households tend to rely heavily on climate-sensitive resources. Climate Change can reduce the availability of these local natural resources, limiting the options for rural households that depend on natural resources for consumption or economic activities. During and after the climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372594
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Tackling climate change through adaptation finance in the Least Developed Countries: Is the LDC Fund still fit for purpose?
Davis, Junior; Tan, Celine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper considers the challenges confronting LDCs in meeting the adaptation and mitigation requirements brought on by the climate crisis and addresses the question as to whether the Least Developed Country Fund (LDCF), which is a key source of LDC climate adaptation finance, is still fit for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693578
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A method to finance a global climate fund with a harmonized carbon tax
Silverstein, David N. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Funding a response to climate change after Kyoto will require another look at both burden sharing and funding mechanisms. After reviewing the risks of cap-and-trade with carbon offsets and the advantages of a harmonized carbon tax, a method is proposed to utilize a harmonized carbon tax to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756497
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Connotation of minor millet biodiversity and indirect payments in tribal homesteads in the backdrop of climate change.
Aravindakshan, Sreejith; Sherief, Aliyaru Kunju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Unscathed agrobiodiversity remaining in-situ today is found on the small-scale farms and homestead gardens of poorer and developing countries (Brookfield, 2001). The indigenous traditional farming of Muthuvan tribe as the case of Finger millet or Ragi (Eleusine coracana), a minor millet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805838
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Planning and costing of agricultural adaptation with reference to integrated hill farming systems in Nepal.
Paudel, Bikash; Tamang, B B; Lamsal, Krishna; Paudel, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
1. Despite an existing information gap in scientific evidence regarding the effects of future changes in climate patterns and options for the future, the community-based adaptation process should nevertheless be initiated. This requires community involvement through participatory planning in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113334
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Using a harmonized carbon price framework to finance the Green Climate Fund
Silverstein, David N. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Funding a response to climate change after Kyoto will require another look at both burden sharing and funding mechanisms. After reviewing the risks of cap-and-trade with carbon offsets and the advantages of a harmonized carbon tax, a method is proposed to utilize a harmonized carbon price to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370829
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Multiple Threshold Effects for Temperature and Mortality
Chen, Ping-Yu; Chen, Chi-Chung; Chang, Chia-Lin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
test whether there are threshold effects between temperature and mortality, using a panel of 78 major cities in 22 OECD … countries for 1990-2008. From the empirical analysis, we find that the relationship between temperature and mortality has three …). When the temperature exceeds 87.53℉ (30.85℃), higher temperature leads to higher mortality rate. Based on the estimated …
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