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Socioeconomic impacts of land restoration in agriculture : a systematic review
Malan, Mandy; Berkhout, Ezra; Duchoslav, Jan; Voors, Maarten - 2022
research on the socioeconomic impact of such interventions, namely within agroforestry, conservation agriculture, integrated … Landwirtschaft, integriertes Bodenfruchtbarkeitsmanagement sowie Boden- und Wasserschutz.Wir konzentrieren uns auf die …
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Climate anomalies and international migration : a disaggregated analysis for West Africa
Martinez Flores, Fernanda; Milusheva, Sveta; Reichert, … - 2021
Migration is one of the channels West African populations can use to adjust to the negative impacts of climate change. Using novel geo-referenced and high-frequency data, this study investigates the extent to which soil moisture anomalies drive international migration decisions within the region...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607104
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Indian agriculture under climate change : the competing effect of temperature and rainfall anomalies
Gallé, Johannes; Katzenberger, Anja - 2023
The latest generation of global climate models robustly projects that the summer monsoon rainfall in India will significantly increase in the 21st century due to global warming and that rainfall anomalies will occur more often. This raises the question of the impact of these changes on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014228493
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The diffusion of cattle ranching and deforestation : prospects for a hollow frontier in Mexico’s Yucatán
Busch, Christopher B.; Vance, Colin - 2011
This article investigates the behavioral drivers of pasture creation and associated implications for deforestation in a 22,000 km2 agricultural frontier spanning the base of Mexico‘s southern Yucatán. After developing a theoretical model that highlights the role of social networks and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008935247
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Rainfall risk, fertility and development : evidence from farm settlements during the American demographic transition
Grimm, Michael - 2017
I analyze whether variation in rainfall risk played a role for the speed of the demographic transition among American settlers. The underlying hypothesis is that children constituted a buffer stock of labor that could be mobilized in response to income shocks. Identification relies on fertility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011745641
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Impacts of anticipatory cash transfers in the context of weather disasters
Mogge, Lukas; Roeckert, Julian; Schindler, Kati - 2024
Anticipatory humanitarian assistance is a novel approach to aid in the context of weather disasters, drawing on meteorological forecasts. Using a randomized study design, we analyze the impact of anticipatory cash transfers distributed to pastoralist households in Mongolia during an extreme...
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Enlarging the EMU to the East : what effects on trade?
Belke, Ansgar (contributor); Spies, Julia (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003525329
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Estonia and the European Monetary Union : are there benefits from a “late” accession?
Baas, Timo - 2014
Der Beitritt von Estland zur Eurozone verzögerte sich aufgrund der Nichterfüllung des EU-Konvergenzkriteriums zur …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417152
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Economic integration and growth at the margin : a space-time incremental impact analysis
Mitze, Timo; Breidenbach, Philipp - 2018
We use the case of EU enlargement in 2004 to investigate the impact of economic integration on regional income growth … indicate that EU-15 regions up to a distance of 100 km from the integration border experience positive integration effects, but … settings and placebo tests. Country-specific estimates for the EU-15 finally indicate that in particular East German regions …
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Real convergence, capital flows, and competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe
Belke, Ansgar; Schnabl, Gunther; Zemanek, Holger - 2009
The paper scrutinizes the role of wages and capital flows for competitiveness in the new EU member states in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901015