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What would be a fair solution to the problem of climate change? How should we distribute duties and financial burdens …
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Climate change, whether through increased temperatures or sea-level rise, is likely to affect the spatial and temporal … factors, relatively few studies have tackled the impact of climate change on tourism. In particular there are few quantitative … studies on the effect that climate change will have on tourism. The aim of this thesis is to fill the research gap and so …
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Kilimanjaro untersucht, um die lokale und regionale Ökosystem-, Klima-, Feuerdynamik in einem größeren Rahmen zu verstehen … vorliegende Arbeit erforscht die spätquartäre Vegetation-, Klima- und Feuerdynamik am Kilimanjaro, um das Verständnis der dortigen … Ökosystem zu vertiefen. Sowohl Pollen als auch weitere Klima-Proxies von zwei Sedimentkernen werden analysiert, um die …
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exogenous shocks on migration flows. The net effect of the shock on the long run volume of bilateral net emigration clearly … depends on the relative size of diaspora and counter-diaspora. For some countries a shock can reverse the pattern of migration …
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Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht wissenschaftlich anhand eines theoretischen Modells, wie sich internationale Migration auf die Volkwirtschaft des Aufnahmelandes auswirkt – nicht nur im Rahmen der EU-Osterweiterung. Kapitel eins enthält neben einer Hinführung zum Thema einen allgemeinen...
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Since the 1980's the phenomenon of potential climate change or 'global warming' has been one of the predominant topics … in environmental economics. Uncertainty is one of the main characteristics of climate change since many important …, climate uncertainty is endogenous uncertainty. Facing the uncertainty associated with global warming different types of …
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Rate-based emissions policies (like tradable performance standards) fix average emissions intensity, while cap-and-trade policies fix total emissions. This paper shows that unfettered trade between rate-based and cap-and-trade programs always raises combined emissions, except when product...
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The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is an effort by nine states to constrain carbon dioxide emissions from the electric power sector using a cap-and-trade program. This paper assesses the importance of long-term electricity contracts under the program. We find that 12.2% of generation will be...
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policy and forecast the outcome of policy changes in the context of changing climate and economic factors. The approach is … directly influence both harvest and effort, whereas bag and minimum size limits only affect harvest directly. Also, climate …
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The development of cropping systems simulation capabilities world-wide combined with easy access to powerful computing …
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