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Climate change and individual decision making : an examination of knowledge, risk perception, self-interest and their interplay
Pongiglione, Francesca - 2011
In this essay, three separate yet interconnected components of pro-environmental decision making are considered: (a) knowledge, in the form of basic scientific understanding and procedural knowledge, (b) risk perception, as it relates to an individual's direct experience of climate change and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009303794
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Equity and justice in global warming policy
Kverndokk, Snorre; Rose, Adam - 2008
Many countries are implementing or at least considering policies to counter increasingly certain negative impacts from climate change. An increasing amount of research has been devoted to the analysis of the costs of climate change and its mitigation, as well as to the design of policies, such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008798530
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To go or not to go : migration alleviates climate damages even for those who stay behind
Shayegh, Soheil; Casey, Greg P. - 2017
, focusing on the instrumental role of migration. In particular, we investigate how climate-induced migration in developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753421
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Migration and climate change in rural Africa
Cattaneo, Cristina; Massetti, Emanuele - 2015
We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If … migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it … generated by General Circulation model reveal that, ceteris paribus, migration may decline in Ghana and in Nigeria. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010505122
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Institutions and the environment : existing evidence and future directions
Dasgupta, Shouro; De Cian, Enrica - 2016
In this review we synthetize the existing contributions that use econometric approaches to examine the influence of institutions and governance on environmental policy, environmental outcomes, and investments. The paper describes how the relationship between institutions and various response...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485706
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Selective attention and the importance of types for information campaigns
Perrotta Berlin, Maria; Mandl, Benjamin - 2020
In this paper we try to contribute to the understanding of the persistence and increase of meat eating in the face of mounting evidence on the ills of meat production and consumption by considering the role of selective attention and learning. We aim to test whether agent type plays a role in...
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Actors, decision-making, and institutions in quantitative system modelling
De Cian, Enrica; Dasgupta, Shouro; Hof, Andries F.; … - 2017
Increasing the realism with respect to the representation of actors, decision-making, and institutions is critical to better understand the transition towards a low-carbon sustainable society since actors, decision-making, and institutions are the defining elements of transition pathways. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715004
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Are cross-country studies of the Environmental Kuznets Curve misleading? : new evidence frome time series data for Germany
Egli, Hannes - 2002
In recent years, extensive literature on the Environmental Kuznets Curve leading to optimistic policy conclusions has attracted great attention. However, the underlying cross-section estimations are not very reliable. Accordingly, this contribution uses time series data for a single country with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596747
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Heterogeneous international agreements : if per capita emission levels matter
Lange, Andreas - 2002
This paper studies the incentives for international cooperation if (some) countries prefer a more equitable distribution of per capita emission levels. The impact of such an equity preference is analyzed first for a bilateral, and then for a multilateral environmental problem. We show that -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598232
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Revisiting worst-case DEA for composite indicators
Athanassoglou, Stergios - 2015
Composite indicators are becoming increasingly infuential tools of environmental assessment and advocacy. Nonetheless, their use is controversial as they often rely on ad-hoc and theoretically problematic assumptions regarding normalization, aggregation, and weighting. Nonparametric data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487006