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The Development Marketplace 2009 focused on adaptation to climate change. This paper identifies lessons from the … ; Adaptation ; Climate Change … Marketplace and assesses their implications for adaptation support. Our findings are based on: statistical tabulation of all …
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This paper examines the determinants of climate related disasters and attempts to estimate the presence of adaptive capacity in terms of per capita income and population density elasticities. We find evidence of adaptive capacity in a “weak” form both in terms of income and population...
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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 1°C increase in global average temperatures...
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India is at the cusp of a major urban transition. In less than twenty years, India's urban population is expected to nearly double from 377 million today to over 600 million. Indian cities already contribute an estimated two-thirds of India's GDP, and this number is expected to rise to 75% by...
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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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absence of a coordinated global agreement on climate change and to realign the policy balance from adaptation toward more …This paper contributes to the normative literature on mitigation and adaptation by framing the question of their … optimal policy balance in the context of catastrophic climate risk. The analysis uses the WITCH integrated assessment model …
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is used to analyze the impact of adaptation assistance from North to South. It is shown that North’s unilateral … assistance to South (thus enhancing South’s adaptation capacity) can facilitate pollution mitigation in both regions, especially …
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rather than substitutes. -- Climate Change Impacts ; Mitigation ; Adaptation ; Integrated Assessment Model … policy measures, adaptation will be needed to address climate-related damages. What is the role of adaptation in this setting … adaptation and mitigation expenditures in a cost-effective setting in which countries cooperate to achieve a long …
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