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The objective of this paper is a theoretical and empirical analysis and evaluation of the role, importance and opportunities of the water-sewage-sludge industry in the implementation of the circular economy. To realize this objective, a review of both the literature and the EU strategic...
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premium into the model, results show a substantial increase in both mitigation and adaptation, reflecting a more conservative … attitude by the social planner. Interestingly, adaptation is stimulated more than mitigation in the first half of the century …, while the situation reverses afterwards. Over the century, the risk premium correction fosters more mitigation, which …
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Underlying the management of revenues from natural resource extraction is a set of assumptions about how abundant and how valuable these resources are. Nevertheless, existing approaches to measuring the value of extractive resources are seriously flawed. This paper proposes two avenues for...
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Biodiversity can sometimes only be preserved if natural habitats are excluded from human uses. Such protection measures generate positive externalities at the global scale. This holds especially for protection in developing countries that host great parts of global biodiversity. 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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costs, hide the presence of a third category, namely adaptation costs. This dodges the determination of an appropriate level … for them. Including adaptation costs explicitly in the total environmental cost function allows one to characterize the … for cost benefit analysis of adaptation expenditures. …
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Commission adopted a new Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change aiming to reinforce the adaptive capacity and minimize … with respect to both the intertemporal consumption and the mix between an insurance (adaptation) against the magnitude of … the catastrophic losses, and an effort strategy (mitigation) aimed at reducing the frequency of such losses. The …
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This paper contributes to the normative literature on mitigation and adaptation by framing the question of their … mitigation. Our analysis also shows that adaptation transfers from and strategic unilateral commitments to adaptation in … to address with mitigation Our second conclusion is that supporting adaptation in developing countries should be …
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the IMPACT model results on yield, production, and net trade of major crops in China, and on daily calorie availability as … suggest that China will be able to maintain a level of at least 3,000 kilocalories per day through 2010 to 2050. Overall …
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It has become commonly accepted that a successful climate strategy should compound mitigation and adaptation. The … accurate combination between adaptation and mitigation that can best address climate change is still an open question. This … paper proposes a framework that integrates mitigation, adaptation, and climate change residual damages into an optimisation …
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