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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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problems. In an attempt to advance in the modelling of adaptation within IAM models, we apply this methodology to shed some … light on how the optimal balance between mitigation and adaptation changes under different stochastic scenarios. We find … that stochastic technology growth hardly affects the optimal bundle of mitigation and adaptation whereas uncertainty about …
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consistent reductions in the residential sector. Even so, only Europe and Oceania in the moderate warming scenario experience …
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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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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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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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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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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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