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This paper analyses the economic impacts of climate change on Ethiopia’s agriculture using a countrywide computable … general equilibrium model. The impacts on agriculture are based on results from a Ricardian model where current (and future …, over a 50-year period, the projected reduction in agricultural productivity may lead to 30 percent less average income …
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the advantages of a partial equilibrium approach, which considers detailed water-agriculture linkages, with a general … equilibrium approach, which takes into account linkages between agriculture and nonagricultural sectors and includes a full …. Due to the limited initial irrigated area in the region, an increase in agricultural productivity achieves better outcomes …
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When considering adoption of a domestic climate change policy, politicians and the public frequently refer to concerns about competitiveness. Competitiveness in this context does not have a precise economic definition. In this article, we discuss possible ways to anchor the concept of...
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and welfare, but this phenomenon will also induce a change in the productive structure, with a decline in agriculture and … agriculture entails a lower demand for water, counteracting the additional demand for water coming from tourists and bringing …
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and welfare, but this phenomenon will also induce a change in the productive structure, with a decline in agriculture and … agriculture entails a lower demand for water, counteracting the additional demand for water coming from tourists and bringing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552340
This paper proposes a new tool to assess sustainability and make the concept of sustainable development operational. It considers its multi-dimensional structure combining the information deriving from a selection of relevant sustainability indicators belonging to economic, social and...
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In the light of climate change, transport systems become increasingly stressed by extreme weather and gradual climatic changes, resulting in direct costs which arise in the affected sector as well as indirect costs due to economic spill-over effects. To attenuate these costs, sector specific...
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The aim of the study is to analyse the short run impact of the EU climate and energy package on the Polish economy. We employ a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model and focus on the short-run reaction of the economy to the shock, before the persistent structural changes takes place,...
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Ethiopia, have emphasized only crop agriculture and disregarded the role of livestock. In this research, we analyze climate … change and agricultural productivity in Ethiopia in its broader sense, inclusive of livestock production. We employ a … beneficial to livestock agriculture, while it is harmful to the Ethiopian economy from the crop agriculture point of view …
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1. Despite an existing information gap in scientific evidence regarding the effects of future changes in climate patterns and options for the future, the community-based adaptation process should nevertheless be initiated. This requires community involvement through participatory planning in...
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