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Impact of climate smart agriculture on food security: an agent-based analysis
Bazzana, Davide; Foltz, Jeremy D.; Zhang, Ying - 2021
The study proposes an agent-based model to investigate how adoption of climate smart agriculture (CSA) affects food security. The analysis investigates the role of social and ecological pressures (i.e. community network, climate change and environmental externalities) on the adoption of physical...
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Global energy demand in a warming climate
De Cian, Enrica; Wing, Ian Sue - 2016
This paper combines an econometric analysis of the response of energy demand to temperature and humidity exposure with future scenarios of climate change and socioeconomic development to characterize climate impacts on energy demand at different spatial scales. Globally, future climate change is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451591
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Simulated vs. empirical weather responsiveness of crop yields : U.S. evidence and implications for the agricultural impacts of climate change
Mistry, Malcolm N.; Wing, Ian Sue; De Cian, Enrica - 2017
Global gridded crop models (GGCMs) are the workhorse of assessments of the agricultural impacts of climate change. Yet the changes in crop yields projected by different models in response to the same meteorological forcing can differ substantially. Through an inter-method comparison, we provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011714924
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A more sustainable energy strategy for India
Ahluwalia, Montek S.; Gupta, Himanshu; Stern, Nicholas H. - 2016
The COP-21 meeting in Paris produced an important result. For the first time all countries developed and developing agreed to take some mitigation action. However even if all countries deliver on what they have promised by 2030 and progress thereafter continues only at the same rate global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508009
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Do global financial markets capitalise sustainability? : evidence of a quick reversal
Moliterni, Fabio - 2018
This study investigates the growing importance of sustainability in financial markets by estimating the extent of capitalisation of companies' commitment to sustainability on their market value. The spreading concern for social and environmental issues, and especially for the material risks of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011862953
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Quantifying sustainability : a new approach and world ranking
Carraro, Carlo; Campagnolo, Lorenza; Eboli, Fabio; … - 2012
evolution of all indicators over time throughout the world, and (ii) the aggregation methodology to reconcile them in one … current sustainability at world level differs from what the traditional measure of well-being, the GDP, depicts, highlighting … the trade-offs among different components of sustainability. Moreover, in the next decade a slight decrease in world …
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Sustainable consumption : three questions about a fuzzy concept
Reisch, Lucia A. - 1998
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Assessing SDGs : a new methodology to measure sustainability
Campagnolo, Lorenza; Carraro, Carlo; Eboli, Fabio; … - 2015
the world. The second phase, prospective, aims at evaluating the future trends of sustainability in the world by 2030. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391794
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Interactions between climate and trade policies : a survey
Galeotti, Marzio; Kemfert, Claudia - 2004
Economic globalization affects the environment and sustainable development in several ways and through various channels. The purpose of this paper is to review the key links between globalization and the environment. The paper intends to consider the major issues in multilateral economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603123
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Implications of the 2030 EU resource efficiency target on sustainable development
Campagnolo, Lorenza; Eboli, Fabio - 2015
The paper explores the implications of achieving the EU27 Resource Efficiency target by 2030 for the future sustainability of the area. The target involves increasing by well over 30% within 2030 EU27 Resource Productivity, which would correspond to nearly double the annual growth rate of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513983