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Climate change is now affecting agriculture and food production in every country of the world. Here the authors present the IMPACT model results on yield, production, and net trade of major crops in China, and on daily calorie availability as an overall indicator of food security under climate...
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Food security in China affects the livelihood and well-being of one-fifth of the world population. Climate change is now affecting agriculture and food production in every country of the world. Here the authors present the IMPACT model results on yield, production, and net trade of major crops...
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multilateral process. Nonetheless, an agreement was reached on the critical issue of loss and damage, even though many key aspects …
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policy integration -the joint implementation of mitigation and adaptation measures- in the presence ecological thresholds …The land use sector is an area with high potential to pursue mitigation and adaptation goals alike. However, due to the … policy configurations were analyzed using a dynamic optimization framework and simulation tools. The results indicate that …
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resilience—in the sense of valuing preservation—can change fundamentally. While at the beginning of a career, the main challenge …-typical accounts of the meaning of adaptation and adaptability for musical actors with a focus on the actors’ networking strategies …
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The Development under Climate Change research effort provides a basis for determining quantitative impacts on infrastructure from climate change. This paper provides results of an analysis of sea level rise impacts on road infrastructure in Vietnam. The study utilizes a quantitative approach for...
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This paper contributes to the normative literature on mitigation and adaptation by analyzing their optimal policy … substantive emission reductions, do not succeed. The policy balance is realigned from adaptation toward more mitigation, and the … responsiveness of mitigation to changes in adaptation decreases. Compared to a world without climate catastrophes, risk reduces the …
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stimulate efficient adaptation and mitigation should not exclusively rely on the assumption of the homo oeconomicus, but take … outcomes. This paper systematically reviews what prospect theory can offer to analyse mitigation and adaptation. It is shown …-known puzzles in the climate debate, including (but not limited to) the different uptake of mitigation and adaptation amongst …
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A strategy of inclusion of adaptation and mitigation expenses in a model of optimal growth under threat of climate … (even to extinction forever) and/or triggers a fundamental change of the economic structure. Mitigation expenses reduce the … long-run probability of a calamity or the speed of convergence to it; adaptation expenses help to improve the standard of …
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mitigation and adaptation, carbon and solar geoengineering span the universe of possible climate policies. Their wildly different … characteristics have important implications for climate policy. We show in the context of our model that: (i) the optimal carbon tax …
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