Key sensitivities to Mediterranean tourism include drought and heatwaves, both of which are likely to increase with …

In this paper, we show that drought has a positive effect on the incidence of civil war over the 1945-2005 period in … Sub-Saharan Africa. We use the Palmer Drought Severity Index which is a richer measurement of drought than the measures … than 42% from a 'normal' climate to an 'extremely drought' climate. Surprisingly, only 2.5% of this effect is channeled …

water allocation, irrigation policies, and climate change, among others water related issues. …

In this paper we consider a two periods model of cropping using irrigation. The farmer takes two kind of decisions, one … related to the level of investment in irrigation capacity and the other one to the irrigation level in each period. In the … period. Assuming a CARA utility function, we show that taxing the investment may entail an increase in preventive irrigation …

, precipitation changes, and unitary irrigation costs. Results suggest different economic consequences of climate change depending on …

This paper proposes a new Economic Drought Management Index (EDMI) that could assist water managers to inter … served by the supply system. An empirical application of EDMIs is performed for two irrigation districts in Andalusia … various scenarios of climate change, and for a 8-year real period, which includes three consecutive drought years. Results …

and the government aimed at increasing community participation in the design and management of irrigation canals. The case …

agriculture is conducted. Adaptation practices considered are a mix of cheaper soft measures and more costly hard irrigation … in all the simulations after 2025. In a second part of the paper a cost effectiveness analysis of adaptation in Nigeria … adaptation exploiting low cost opportunities. In this case all climate change damages can be offset with a benefit cost ration …

) to replace the SRES scenarios. To be used to investigate adaptation and mitigation, SSPs need to be contrasted along two … axes: challenges to mitigation, and challenges to adaptation. This paper proposes a methodology to develop SSPs with a … adaptation challenges; (ii) a modelling exercise to transform these drivers into a large set of scenarios; (iii) an a posteriori …