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WISE project. This project aims at investigating the effects and the impacts of extreme weather events, particularly very … modelling of the impact of weather, through quantitative analysis of activity time series. In particular, the core sectors …
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WISE project. This project aims at investigating the effects and the impacts of extreme weather events, particularly very … the perception of weather impacts through questionnaire survey to the general public. With regard to the individuals … impacts of weather extremes on their daily habits at work, at home, in their leisure activities, on their transport patterns …
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Weather Impacts on Natural, Social and Economic Systems (WISE). The second one is carried out at the local level and focuses …
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This paper studies the economic implications of climate-change-induced variations in tourism demand, using a world CGE … changes of consumption preferences for domestically produced goods. The second shocks reallocate income across world regions …
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The 1998 Kyoto protocol signalled a new earnestness of international intent toward addressing the perceived risk of climate change. Kyoto demands that developed nations turn their economies so as to hit differentiated, sub-1990 level carbon emission targets within the next decade or so. But when...
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Questions of burden sharing receive increasing attention in the climate change regime. This paper introduces the WESA-mechanism (WESA = Walrasian Equilibrium with the Stand Alone upper bound) for the fair division of common property resources and monetary compensations. Furthermore, the...
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The purpose of the present paper is to describe the role of uncertainty and technical change in an environmental context. Which impact does ecological uncertainty have on physical and R&D investments' decisions? How are pollution trajectories modified when uncertainty is taken into account? To...
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The economy-wide implications of sea level rise in 2050 are estimated using a static computable general equilibrium model. Overall, general equilibrium effects increase the costs of sea level rise, but not necessarily in every sector or region. In the absence of coastal protection, economies...
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A new instrument for hedging weather risks has made its appearance in the financial arena. Trade in 'weather … weather derivatives is somehow related to anthropogenic climate change. Our tentative answer is positive. Since 'global … and magnitude of weather extremes, derivative contracts may potentially become a useful tool for hedging some weather …
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Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have … countries, leaving rich countries basically unaffected. In this study, we make use of a detailed weather and economic dataset …
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