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Economics of Multifunctional Forestry in the Sámi People Homeland Region
Parkatti, Vesa-Pekka; Tahvonen, Olli - 2020
We study forestry in the Sámi people homeland region to understand an ongoing conflict between conventional forest logging and maintaining forests as reindeer pastures for indigenous people. We use a detailed model that simultaneously includes timber production, carbon storage in living...
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Land use and land acquisition laws in India
Hoda, Anwarul - 2018
The enactment of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Rehabilitation Act, 2013, has made sweeping changes in the land acquisition laws of India (LARR Act, 2013). By increasing the compensation for acquired land, mandating a social impact...
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The Circular City and the Building Sector
Franz, Gianfranco - 2020
The essay deals with the issue of urban circularity understood as a subset of the Circular Economy paradigm, highlighting potential and limits of an emerging new model spreading on a global scale. The critical reasoning starts from a very recent production of institutional documents and the...
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The impact of the increasing demand for biofuels in the EU on the possibility to conduct collective action for reaching a common good: The changes in the community-based management...
Miteva, Pavlina - 2014
The negative impact of EU biofuel policy on the agricultural markets, carbon emissions and global land use has been evidenced through many studies. Besides the often affirmed negative implications, the paper suggests that in countries targeted by land investments for biofuel production, there...
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The day after tomorrow: mitigation and adaptation policies to deal with uncertainty
Bazzana, Davide; Menoncin, Francesco; Vergalli, Sergio - 2021
Commission adopted a new Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change aiming to reinforce the adaptive capacity and minimize … with respect to both the intertemporal consumption and the mix between an insurance (adaptation) against the magnitude of …
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El Niño and Indian droughts: A scoping exercise
Saini, Shweta; Gulati, Ashok - 2014
Weather experts around the world are foreseeing a strong El Niño in 2014. In India, these developments are feared to lead to droughts. In the last 14 years, out of the four El Niño years globally, three resulted in Indian droughts. Since the 1980s, all the six droughts faced by India were in...
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Can the Global Forest Sector Survive 11°C Warming?
Favero, Alice; Mendelsohn, Robert; Sohngen, Brent - 2017
It is well known that the forestry sector is sensitive to climate change but most studies have examined impacts only through 2100 and warming of less than 4°C. This is the first timber analysis to consider possible climate change impacts out to 2250 and warming up to 11°C above 1900 levels....
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Do Temperature Thresholds Threaten American Farmland?
Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert - 2017
Estimated Ricardian models have been criticized because they rely on mean temperatures and do not explicitly include extreme temperatures. This paper uses a cross sectional approach to compare a standard quadratic Ricardian model of mean temperature with a fully flexible daily temperature bin...
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The role of waterways in promoting urban resilience: The case of Kochi City
Aziz, Zeba; Ray, Indro; Paul, Sandeep - 2018
climate change, and need for both mitigation and adaptation, there has been a renewed interest in investing in waterways to … enhance connectivity in the region. The study examines how water ways can promote the climate, social and economic resilience …
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Climate Change, Armed Conflicts and Resilience
D'Angeli, Mariagrazia; Marin, Giovanni; Paglialunga, Elena - 2022
important pathway to be explored is the role that building resilience can play in preventing and/or breaking the negative … relationship between climate change and violent activity. In this context, resilience refers to the capacity of a system to come … technological dimensions. In our paper we provide empirical evidence on the role played by resilience-building investments in …
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