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This paper contributes to the normative literature on mitigation and adaptation by framing the question of their … absence of a coordinated global agreement on climate change and to realign the policy balance from adaptation toward more … mitigation. Our analysis also shows that adaptation transfers from and strategic unilateral commitments to adaptation in …
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Farmland values have traditionally been valued using seasonal temperature and precipitation. A new strand of the literature uses degree days over the growing season to predict farmland value. We find that degree days and daily temperature are interchangeable over the growing season. However, the...
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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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In many low-income countries, agriculture is mostly rainfed and yields highly depend on climatic factors. Furthermore, farmers have little access to traditional crop insurance, which suffers from high information asymmetry and transaction costs. Insurances based on meteorological indices could...
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This paper measures the economic impact of climate change on US agricultural land by estimating the effect of the presumably random year-to-year variation in temperature and precipitation on agricultural profits. Using long-run climate change predictions from the Hadley 2 Model, the preferred...
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in all the simulations after 2025. In a second part of the paper a cost effectiveness analysis of adaptation in Nigeria … agriculture is conducted. Adaptation practices considered are a mix of cheaper soft measures and more costly hard irrigation … adaptation exploiting low cost opportunities. In this case all climate change damages can be offset with a benefit cost ration …
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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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to coastal resources will depend strongly on adaptation, society's response to cope with the impacts. This paper presents … between very detailed local studies and aggregate global estimates. The Coastal Impact and Adaptation Model (CIAM) determines … the optimal strategy for adaptation at the local level, evaluating over 12,000 coastal segments, as described in the DIVA …
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The climate change impacts on sea level rise and coastal disasters, and the possible adaptation responses have been …
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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 so far on actual delivery mechanisms to channel these resources at …
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