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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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In vielen Anwendungen ist es notwendig, die stochastische Schwankungen der maximalen Abweichungen der nichtparametrischen Schätzer von Quantil zu wissen, zB um die verschiedene parametrische Modelle zu überprüfen. Einheitliche Konfidenzbänder sind daher für nichtparametrische Quantil...
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During the past decades, globalisation in all of its facets dominated many controversial debates of political leaders and common citizens and called the predominant attention of the international press and the scientific community. A major phenomenon in this context is the ongoing...
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producers in the USA, Canada, and Australia adopt El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-based climate forecasts for use in …An international wheat trade model incorporating climate variability is used to simulate different scenarios when wheat … especially true if producers in other countries are adopting the use of climate forecasts. …
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It is becoming increasingly clear, at least on a theoretical level, that modelers of the potential impacts of climate … in its climate must be undertaken, as well. In the vernacular of the analysts' workroom, while it may be interesting to …, it is critically important to evaluate the need for any sort of policy response to climate change in a world of smart …
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At the end of the driest year on record, California faces water shortages whose impacts will be felt with progressive severity through the summer and fall of 1977. Electric power is not entirely exempt from these impacts and could, if severly affected, compound the direct distresses of the...
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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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This dissertation examines three labor market issues regarding public schooladministrators in Texas using personnel records from the 1994-95 school year untilthe 2003-04 school year. The first essay explores promotion rates of men and womento school principal, a position that requires...
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