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Women's employment and natural shocks
Canessa, Eugenia; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2021
We employ georeferenced data and longitudinal household panel survey data to investigate the impact of the dramatic flooding that hit Bangladesh from August-September 2014 on women's employment and empowerment. Development economics models suggest an increase in household members' labour supply...
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The Intricacy of Adapting to Climate Change : Flood Protection as a Local Public Goods Game
Bondarev, Anton A. - 2017
We study adaptation to climate change in a federalist setting. To protect themselves against an increase in flood risk …
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Flood Hazards : A Case Study of the Floods in Bangladesh, Asia (Presentation Slides)
Lemenkova, Polina - 2019
The presentation describes problem of flooding in Bangladesh: Among the countries that are the worst affected by climate change. Frequent natural disasters, loss of life, damage to infrastructure and economic assets, impacts on lives and livelihoods. Floods, tropical cyclones, storm surges and...
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Differential exposure to climate change? : evidence from the 2021 floods in Germany
Odersky, Moritz; Löffler, Max - 2023
natural disasters intensified by anthropogenic climate change. To this end, we link official geo-coded satellite data on flood …-affected buildings to neighborhood-level information on socio-economic status. We then document the empirical relationship between flood … percent lower in flood-affected neighborhoods than in non-affected neighborhoods nearby. Our study is the first to document …
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Risky environment : how extreme weather conditions in Nigeria lead to harvest failure
Berger, Julius - 2024
This paper investigates the relationship between extreme weather conditions and the risk of flooding-induced harvest failure in Nigerian agriculture using a probit model. I use household-level survey and gridded weather data to exploit weather variation across time and space. Risk of harvest...
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Fixing the Business of Food : Aligning Food Company Practices with the SDGs
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Columbia … - 2021
This report is part of an ongoing annual series of reports on Fixing the Business of Food initiated and actively supported by the Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition (BCFN). The report is the product of a team including BCFN, the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) at Columbia...
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Allocation of New Zealand Units Within Agriculture in the New Zealand Emissions Trading System
Kerr, Suzi; Zhang, Wei - 2014
When agricultural emissions are included in the New Zealand Emission Trading System (ETS) the economics of farming will be significantly altered. Under the legislation current in October 2009, in the early years of the system the agricultural sector as a whole would have received NZ units...
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Nature-based solutions for flood management in Asia and the Pacific
Molnar-Tanaka, Kensuke - 2024
flood protection measures exist, they generally rely only on grey, hard-engineered infrastructure, which has been … increasingly challenged in recent years. Nature-based solutions (NbS) offer a new approach for flood management, with several co …
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Copenhagen and beyond : reflections on China's stance and responses
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2010 - This version: March 2010
China had been singled out by Western politicians and media for dragging its feet on international climate negotiations at Copenhagen, the accusations previously always targeted on the U.S. To put such a criticism into perspective, this paper provides some reflections on China's stance and...
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Programs, prices and policies towards energy conservation and environmental quality in China
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014
China has gradually recognized that the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment cannot be sustained. It has to be changed. This article focuses on China's efforts towards energy conservation and environmental quality. The article discusses a variety of...
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