How much do poor rural households rely on environmental extraction from natural ecosystems? And how does climate … and Environment Network pantropical data set, combined with climate data for the past three decades. The study finds that … shocks and observed production reactions to climate anomalies can, respectively, provide hints about livelihood vulnerability …

payments from weather index insurance allow farmers to cultivate a larger land area in the season following a weather shock …Weather risk and incomplete insurance markets are significant contributors to poverty for rural households in … developing countries. Weather index insurance has emerged as a possible tool for overcoming these challenges. This paper provides …

The influence of climate on economic growth is a topic of growing interest. Few studies have investigated the potential … role that climate hazards and their cumulative effects have on the growth prospects for a country. Due to the relatively … stationary spatial patterns of global climate, some regions and countries are more prone to climate hazards and climate …

The world's climate is changing. It is well recognized that technical standards and project specifications of public … infrastructure have to be adjusted, depending on the climate. However, it is less recognized that the public infrastructure … procurement also needs to be adjusted. This paper examines a particular case of rural road procurement in Nepal. Severe weather …

Climate change damage (or, more correctly, impact) functions relate variations in temperature (or other climate … of climate change policies. This document provides a summary of results from a series of meta-analyses aimed at … is the most significant one in each country, and elaborates on the distributional consequences of climate change …

impacts of climate change on water resources and agriculture in Africa. The first phase of the study used a version of a … inputs were the climate variables of the 1961-90 climatology and physiological parameters (such as soil properties and land … hydroclimatic series to the year 2000 using updated input data. To ascertain the possible impacts of climate change within the …

To what degree can vulnerability to extreme weather events be mitigated by access to a rural livelihoods program … climate change …

weather patterns. These findings imply that the change in the patterns of climatic variability associated with climate change …This paper examines the impacts of weather shocks, defined as rainfall or growing degree days more than a standard … vulnerability further. The results reveal that weather shocks have substantial (negative as well as positive) effects on welfare …

stability, and conflict risk; and third, to assess how prospective political transitions have implications for the World Bank …