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Climate Change Catastrophes
Pizer, William A. - 2003
Most studies that compare price and quantity controls for greenhouse gas emissions under uncertainty find that price mechanisms perform substantially better. In these studies, the benefits from reducing emissions are proportional to the level of reductions, and such linear benefits strongly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445516
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CLIMATE CHANGE AND PRODUCTION RISK IN CHINESE AQUACULTURE
Holst, Rainer; Yu, Xiaohua - 2010
Drawing on the method developed by Just and Pope (1978, 1979), this paper separately analyzes the marginal contributions of both regular input factors and climate factors to mean output and to production risk in Chinese inland aquaculture. Furthermore, the net change in output following a 1°C...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442668
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Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on China's Grain Sector and International Trade
Hansen, Jim; Tuan, Francis C.; Somwaru, Agapi - 2011
This study analyzes the potential impact of climate change on China's corn, wheat, and rice, domestic agricultural … literature of climate change effects on China's crop yields. The paper presents the potential impact of climate change on China … under CO2 fertilization, which increases yields, China's grain imports may decrease leading to a decrease in international …
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Decision-making in relation to climate and climate change in the People's Republic of China : from adaptation to sea-level rise to destination choice in Chinese tourism
Lau, Maren Anja - 2006
’s Republic of China – an assessment of structural impacts on decision-making processes3.1 Introduction3.2 The Chinese coast3 … approaches in China 3.7 Conclusion – Is Chinese CZM constrained by structural impacts?Chapter 4: adaptation to sea-level rise in … the People’s Republic of China – assessing the institutional dimension of alternative organisational frameworks4 …
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Legal issues for implementing the clean development mechanism in China
Jiang, Xiaoyi - University of Western Sydney; College of Business; … - 2010
in mitigation of global warming. Since it was initiated, thousands of CDM projects have been carried out. China, in … benefits the CDM has brought to China, many barriers and problems are still encountered in the practical implementation of CDM … projects. Moreover, as the first Kyoto period is set to expire in 2012, China, as a major emitter and developing country, will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482103
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ECONOMETRIC-PROCESS MODELS FOR INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
Antle, John M.; Capalbo, Susan M. - 2000
This paper develops the conceptual and empirical basis for a class of empirical economic production models that can be linked to site-specific bio-physical models for use in integrated assessment research. Site-specific data are used to estimate econometric production models, and these data and...
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Cost-Effective Management Alternatives for Snake River Chinook Salmon: a Biological-Economic Synthesis
Halsing, David L.; Moore, Michael R. - 2008
The mandate to increase endangered salmon populations in the Columbia River Basin of North America has created a complex, controversial resource-management issue. We constructed an integrated assessment model as a tool for analyzing biological-economic trade-offs in recovery of Snake River...
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Political Economy of climate change, ecological destruction and uneven development
School of Economics and Finance
The purpose of this paper is to analyze climate change and ecological destruction through the prism of the core general principles of political economy. The paper starts with the principle of historical specificity, and the various waves of climate change through successive cooler and warmer...
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State of the Art: Carbon Emission Accountability Modeling
Lo, Valencia; Potdar, Vidyasagar - 2010
Global warming is becoming a big problem and carbon emissions from a variety of sources are the cause of it. To control emission, a number of carbon emission reduction policies and schemes such as the Kyoto Protocol & COP15 treaty have been reached and put in place. However, not all countries...
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Submission to the Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Committee – Inquiry Into the Effects of Climate Change on Training and Employment Needs
Hampson, Keith D.; Furneaux, Craig W.; Scuderi, Peter - 2008
the built environment. The planned successor to this CRC – the Sustainable Built Environment Centre will further progress environmental sustainability for the built environment as the Centre’s future is confirmed in early 2009. We would like to thank the Senate Committee for the opportunity...
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