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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 … countries, leaving rich countries basically unaffected. In this study, we make use of a detailed weather and economic dataset …
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This paper looks at the growing concern over Greenhouse Gas emissions and the resulting human induced climate change …
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1. Despite an existing information gap in scientific evidence regarding the effects of future changes in climate … technologies at the community level, and among researchers supporting communities in undertaking adaptations to climate change, are …
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Complexity theory is designed to bring order out of a rough-and- tumble world, something close to every insurance professional's or actuary's heart. Whether applied in the laboratory or as part of a mathematical model, it can do wonderful things . But in the real world it's just what its name...
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-lasting extreme climate events, with consequent greater damage to human life. This paper uses the multiple panel threshold model to … 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 …
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to climate change. Cold weather shocks at the peak of the slave trade predict lower economic activity today. We support …
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show that a typical port exported fewer slaves in a year when the local temperature was warmer than normal. This result is … strongest where African ecosystems are least resilient to climate change, and is robust to several alternative specifications …
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As the largest Muslim community in the world, Indonesia is optimist on implementing Islamic economy as one of the system. The previous global financial turmoil has made the attention turn on the Islamic financial model, and in particular the Islamic banking system. This model offers a...
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Indian Farmers continue to suffer regularly from Droughts, as a frequent natural disaster and has profound effect individually and collectively. The mental health effects of natural disaster are well known however anxiety and readiness of likely Drought is less well understood. However, in...
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global climate change. About 20% populations of the world live in China and the emissions of greenhouse gases of it are very … reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Scientists expressed that global warming and climate change is due to increase of greenhouse … contributing to the global warming. This paper emphasizes on the environment pollution and climate change and recommended to reduce …
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