Similar Search Results

REVIEW OF CLIMATE CHANGE RISKS AND VULNERABILITIES

Boiangiu, Marius Cosmin - 2018

as assessed by the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the leading international …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011899335

REVIEW OF CLIMATE CHANGE RISKS AND VULNERABILITIES

Boiangiu, Marius Cosmin - 2018

as assessed by the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the leading international …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015335952

Anticipating Vulnerability to Climate Change in Dryland Pastoral Systems: Using Dynamic Systems Models for the Kalahari

Dougill, Andrew J.; Fraser, Evan D.G.; Reed, Mark - 2010

analyzing how a range of external pressuresaffect the vulnerability of dryland pastoral systems in the Kalahari. This is … managers can provide ‘win-win-win’ benefits of reducing system vulnerability, increasing economic income, and building social …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468468

Vulnerability, Income Growth and Climate Change

Shively, Gerald E.; Ward, Patrick S.; Diffenbaugh, Noah S. - 2009

Cross-country data on energy consumption, GDP and vulnerability are used to measure percentage changes in vulnerability … effects on per capita income, have the effect of reducing a country’s overall vulnerability to climate change by a greater … globe, are unlikely to reduce vulnerability to climate change, especially at very low incomes. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446304

Decision analysis and risk management : application to climate change and risk detection

2011

We have analyzed the application of decision analysis and risk management tools to solve practical problems associated with Climate Change and Risk Detection in the financial services industry. Geoengineering, which is described as an intentional modification of earth’s environment to mitigate...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429336

Essays on the optimal policy response to climate change

Wiseman, Thomas E. (contributor) - 2011

by climate change.The widespread adoption of environmentally friendly consumer products can reduce the impacts of climate …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429397

Internalizing the carbon externality : greenhouse gas mitigation’s financial impact on electric utilities and their customers

Groat, Charles G. (contributor) - 2010

Social, political, and economic trends suggest that the United States may soonjoin other United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)countries in drafting substantive, national climate change policy. After providing a briefoverview of past and present climate action taken both...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429420

The Income-Temperature Relationship in a Cross-Section of Countries and its Implications for Predicting the Effects of Global Warming.

Horowitz, John K. - 2009

that a 1°C temperature increase across all countries will cause a decrease of 3.8% in world GDP. This prediction is robust …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429434

Economics and climate applications: exploring the frontier.

Rubas, Debra J.; Hill, Harvey S.J.; Mjelde, James W. - 2006

The economics of information is a broad field covering all aspects of information including decision making. We briefly describe 4 methods used to model the decision-making process. This is not an exhaustive list of the methods used to value information, nor are differences between the methods...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429468

Land-use change and carbon sinks: Econometric estimation of the carbon sequestration supply function.

Lubowski, Ruben N.; Plantinga, Andrew J.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2006

If the United States chooses to implement a greenhouse gas reduction program, it would be necessary to decide whether to include carbon sequestration policies - - -such as those that promote forestation and discourage deforestation - - -as part of the domestic portfolio of compliance activities....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429477