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decisions over the past 30 years at the county-level. We match this information with daily data on temperature and soil moisture … levels of moisture necessary to fully offset the season-expanding effect of a temperature rise of 3ºC would need to be very …
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by implementing green development strategies based on low energy –intensity, low-carbon emissions and clean technologies. …
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adaptation, the poor will suffer. Through the use of hundreds of scenario maps, models, figures, and detailed analysis, the …
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This paper estimates the effects of humidity and temperature on mortality rates in the United States (c. 1973–2002) in … order to provide an insight into the potential health impacts of climate change. I find that humidity, like temperature, is … an important determinant of mortality. Coupled with Hadley CM3 climate-change predictions, I project that mortality rates …
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rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, and increasing extreme events. Without attention to adaptation, the …
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This book is a joint effort lead by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in collaboration with the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) focused on the climate and development challenge for LAC. It deals with a matter that is bound...
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Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have … countries, leaving rich countries basically unaffected. In this study, we make use of a detailed weather and economic dataset …
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Climate change adaptation and mitigation need to cut across all poverty reduction efforts, including any post-2015 …
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expenditures and consumption. Climate will affect energy consumption by changing how consumers respond to short run weather shocks …, further research that uses household and firm-level panel data of energy consumption may help identify how energy consumers …This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between climate and the energy sector. In particular, we …
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This paper provides the first county-level analysis of the impacts of weather variability on rice yield in China, by … compiling a unique panel on irrigated single-season rice and daily weather data. We found that temperature and solar radiation …/subtropical regions, we discovered that higher daily minimum temperature during the vegetative stage increased rice yield in China …
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