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considered as a unique scaled down model to assess the severity of potential climate change impacts on coastal zones. The paper … impact assessments in order to provide a complete picture of potential impacts and also to identify possible response … measures. Major impacts such as increased erosion, intensification of floods, saltwater intrusion and loss of habitat will be …
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WISE project. This project aims at investigating the effects and the impacts of extreme weather events, particularly very … covers the quantitative analysis of the impacts of climate extremes on the socio-economic system in Italy and the analysis of … the perception of weather impacts through questionnaire survey to the general public. With regard to the individuals …
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WISE project. This project aims at investigating the effects and the impacts of extreme weather events, particularly very … covers the quantitative analysis of the impacts of climate extremes on the socio-economic system in Italy and the analysis of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324910
In this paper, the economic value of the impacts of climate change is assessed for different Italian economic sectors … and regions. Sectoral and regional impacts are then aggregated to provide a macroeconomic estimate of variations in GDP …
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Many nonmarket valuation models, such as the Ricardian model, have been estimated using cross sectional methods with a single year of data. Although multiple years of data should increase the robustness of such methods, repeated cross sections suggest the results are not stable. We argue that...
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estimates of the economic impact of climate change are incomplete. Some of the missing impacts are likely to be positive and … costs may have a negative bias. The research effort on the economic impacts of climate change is minute, and should be … strengthened, with a particular focus on the quantification of uncertainties; estimating missing impacts, interactions between …
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The holiday destination choice is analysed for tourists from 45 countries, representing all continents and all climates. Tourists are deterred by distance, political instability and poverty, and attracted to coasts. Tourists prefer countries with a sunny yet mild climate, shun climes that are...
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Mediterranean; Environmental and societal impacts of climatic change and sea level rise in the Mediterranean region, Vol 2, 1996. It …
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dynamics with particular attention to the Sebou basin in Morocco, in order to assess some relevant impacts on local communities …
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Aim of this paper is to study whether and how the firm's decision to outsource production activities affects its technological performance. In particular, we look at how the alignment between the firm's governance strategy and the underlying attributes of the transactions affects the capacity of...
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