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in extreme weather events all around the world, resulting in significant human development crises. To overcome this issue …
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); and co-benefits of resilience measures beyond just disaster risk (the third dividend), such as flood embankments in …Chapter 1. The triple dividend of resilience - a new narrative for disaster risk management and development -- Chapter … 2. Unlocking economic potential: the ‘development dividend’ of resilience -- Chapter 3. Co-benefits of disaster risk …
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This book provides an interdisciplinary account of how technological advances - mainly in the domains of energy and transportation - contribute to the transformation towards a more sustainable economic system. Drawing on methods from engineering, the management sciences and economics, which it...
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This book explores the opportunities and barriers within the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) framework of the Paris Agreement for low-carbon technology diffusion. Further, it proposes appropriate and feasible mechanisms required at local, national and regional levels to...
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Climate Trading provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging greenhouse gas emissions trading markets. The book covers events in the UN climate negotiations and the development of the international emissions trading system under the Kyoto Protocol. The key focus of the book is the emerging...
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Part I. Catastrophic risk in economic theory -- Catastrophic Risk, Rare Events, and Black Swans: Toward an Alternative …This is the first book combining research on the Global Environment, Catastrophic Risks and Economic Theory and Policy …. Modern economic theory originated in the middle of the twentieth century when industrial expansion coupled with population …
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This book is a guide to asset and risk management from a practical point of view. It is centered around two questions … triggered by the global events on the stock markets since the middle of the last decade: - Why do crashes happen when in theory … they should not? - How do investors deal with such crises in terms of their risk measurement and management and, as a …
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risky, what leads them to choose the risky alternative? The answer starts with a detailed review of the theory behind risk … risky, what leads them to choose the risky alternative? The answer starts with a detailed review of the theory behind risk … and decision making by managers. The book then gathers real-world evidence using two surveys of senior managers and …
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Dieses Buch betrachtet die Entwicklung der funktionalen und personellen Einkommensverteilung und deren Verortung im … funktionalen und zur personellen Einkommensverteilung dargestellt. Ansätze der Mainstream-Ökonomie werden heterodoxen Ansätzen … betrachtet, konkret wird die Entwicklung der funktionalen bzw. personellen Einkommensverteilung in insgesamt 14 Ländern zwischen …
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