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Drought and civil war in Sub-Saharan Africa
Couttenier, Mathieu; Soubeyran, Raphaël - 2010
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 …
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Impacts of climate change on tourism in the Mediterranean: Adaptive responses
Perry, Allen - 2000
Key sensitivities to Mediterranean tourism include drought and heatwaves, both of which are likely to increase with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608599
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Carbon taxes, path dependency and directed technical change: Evidence from the auto industry
Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hemous, David; … - 2012
Can directed technical change be used to combat climate change? We construct new firm-level panel data on auto industry innovation distinguishing between dirty (internal combustion engine) and clean (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 countries over several decades. We show that firms...
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Quantifying sustainability: A new approach and world ranking
Carraro, Carlo; Campagnolo, Lorenza; Eboli, Fabio; … - 2012
This paper proposes a new tool to assess sustainability and make the concept of sustainable development operational. It considers its multi-dimensional structure combining the information deriving from a selection of relevant sustainability indicators belonging to economic, social and...
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Climate change and adaptation: The case of Nigerian agriculture
Bosello, Francesco; Campagnolo, Lorenza; Eboli, Fabio - 2013
The present research offers an economic assessment of climate change impacts on the four major crop families characterizing Nigerian agriculture, covering more than 80% of agricultural value added. The evaluation is performed shocking land productivity in a computable general equilibrium model...
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A Ricardian analysis of the impact of climate change on European agriculture
Van Passel, Steven; Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert - 2012
This research estimates the impact of climate on European agriculture using a continental scale Ricardian analysis. Data on climate, soil, geography and regional socio-economic characteristics were matched for 37 612 individual farms across the EU-15. Farmland values across Europe are sensitive...
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Energy poverty alleviation and climate change mitigation: Is there a trade off?
Chakravarty, Shoibal; Tavoni, Massimo - 2013
Energy poverty alleviation has become an important political issue in the most recent years. Several initiatives and policies have been proposed to deal with poor access to modern sources of energy in many developing countries. Given the large number of people lacking basic energy services, an...
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Modeling linkages between climate policy and land use: an overview
van der Werf, Edwin; Peterson, Sonja - 2007
Agriculture and forestry play an important role in emitting and storing greenhouse gases. For an efficient and cost-effective climate policy it is therefore important to explicitly include land use, land use change, and forestry (LULUCF) in economyclimate models. This paper gives an overview and...
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Luring Others into Climate Action: Coalition Formation Games with Threshold and Spillover Effects
Bosetti, Valentina; Heugues, Melanie; Tavoni, Alessandro - 2015
We study the effect of leadership in an experimental threshold public 'bad' game, where we manipulate both the relative returns of two investments (the more productive of which causes a negative externality) and the extent to which the gains from leadership diffuse to the group. The game...
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Weather and income: Lessons from the main European regions
García-León, David - 2015
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 1êC increase in global average temperatures...
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