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Quantifying sustainability: A new approach and world ranking
Carraro, Carlo; Campagnolo, Lorenza; Eboli, Fabio; … - 2012
evolution of all indicators over time throughout the world, and (ii) the aggregation methodology to reconcile them in one … current sustainability at world level differs from what the traditional measure of well-being, the GDP, depicts, highlighting … the trade-offs among different components of sustainability. Moreover, in the next decade a slight decrease in world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294272
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Assessing the role of microfinance in fostering adaptation to climate change
Agrawala, Shardul; Carraro, Maëlis - 2010
Much of the current policy debate on adaptation to climate change has focussed on estimation of adaptation costs, ways to raise and to scale-up funding for adaptation, and the design of the international institutional architecture for adaptation financing. There is however little or no emphasis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272440
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A participatory approach to assess the effectiveness of responses to cope with flood risk
Ceccato, Lucia; Giannini, Valentina; Giupponi, Carlo - 2010
This work illustrates the preliminary findings of a participatory research process aimed at identifying responses for sustainable water management in a climate change perspective, in two river basins in Europe and Asia. The paper describes the methodology implemented through local workshops,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272443
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Environmental security and its implications for China's foreign relations
Mochizuki, Junko; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2011
China's emerging standing in the world demands a major rethinking of its diplomatic strategies. Given its population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279462
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Climate change feedback on economic growth: Explorations with a dynamic general equilibrium model
Eboli, Fabio; Parrado, Ramiro; Roson, Roberto - 2009
, production and consumption patterns. We use a new dynamic, multi-regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model of the world … the world? Should forecasts of human-induced greenhouse gases emissions be revised, once climate change impacts are taken …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279548
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Adapting to Climate Change: an Analysis under Uncertainty
García-León, David - 2016
Climate change is a phenomenon beset with major uncertainties and researchers should include them in Integrated Assessment Models. However, including further dimensions in IAM models comes at a cost. In particular, it makes most of these models suffer from the curse of dimensionality. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492378
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Climate Change: National and Local Policy Opportunities in China
Teng, Fei; Gu, Alun - 2007
Climate Change poses a wide range of potentially very severe threats in China. This aggravates the existing vulnerability of China and is one of the big challenges faced by the Chinese government. Adaptation programmes and projects are being developed and implemented at national and local level....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312504
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Technology spillovers embodied in international trade: Intertemporal, regional and sectoral effects in a global CGE
De Cian, Enrica; Parrado, Ramiro - 2012
This paper uses a dynamic CGE model to assess the intertemporal and spatial dimension of technology spillovers embodied in international trade within a climate and trade policy framework. Three are the main contributions of the study. First, to include endogenous factor-biased technical change...
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REDD and international organizations
Giannini, Valentina - 2010
Climate change mitigation can be achieved, according to many, by means of Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in the Tropics (REDD). Within the climate change policy debate we thus find discussions on how to reduce GHG emissions by designing appropriate REDD programmes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286073
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The Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture: Nonlinear Effects and Aggregation Bias in Ricardian Models of Farm Land Values
Fezzi, Carlo; Bateman, Ian - 2013
effects of temperature and precipitation. Model estimation is implemented on data aggregated across counties or large regions … precipitation acting as a mitigating factor for increased heat stress. This interaction disappears when the same data is aggregated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328685