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Climate change, natural disasters, and migration
Mbaye, Linguère Mously - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)
The relationship between climatic shocks, natural disasters, and migration has received increasing attention in recent years and is quite controversial. One view suggests that climate change and its associated natural disasters increase migration. An alternative view suggests that climate change...
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When shocks become persistent: Household-level asset growth in the aftermath of an extreme weather event
Lehmann-Uschner, Katharina; Kraehnert, Kati - 2018
-year winter disaster on post-shock livestock accumulation among pastoralists in Mongolia. Building on a unique household …With the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events due to climate change, assessing the potential …-off extreme weather event can have persistent effects on household-level asset growth. Our focus is on the effect of a once-in-50 …
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Extremely harsh winters threaten the livelihood of Mongolia's herders
Lehmann-Uschner, Katharina; Kraehnert, Kati - In: DIW Weekly Report 8 (2018) 40, pp. 369-375
Households in developing countries are exposed to increasingly extreme weather events that could endanger their … show that extreme weather events have long-term negative consequences on households and underscore the need for systematic …
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Extreme Wetterereignisse bedrohen die Lebensgrundlage der Viehhalter in der Mongolei
Lehmann-Uschner, Katharina; Krähnert, Kati - In: DIW Wochenbericht 85 (2018) 40, pp. 850-855
Haushalte in Entwicklungsländern sind zunehmend extremen Wetterereignissen ausgesetzt, die ihren Wohlstand gefährden können. Dieser Bericht untersucht die Folgen des ungewöhnlich kalten und schneereichen Winters von 2009/2010 auf den Viehbestand mongolischer Haushalte. Der Viehbestand macht...
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Climate change, natural disasters, and migration
Mbaye, Linguère Mously - In: IZA World of Labor (2024)
The relationship between climatic shocks, climate related disasters, and migration has received increasing attention in recent years and is quite controversial. One view suggests that climate change and its associated natural disasters increase migration. An alternative view suggests that...
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Forecasting profitability
Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Chris - 2013
We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...
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Minimum Wages and Unemployment during Economic Shocks
Merfeld, Joshua D.; Sharp, Matthew - 2023
substantial declines in employment - especially overall hours - in the sector in the wake of negative weather-related economic …
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Analyzing rebound effects
Schettkat, Ronald - 2009
Are efficiency improvements in the use of natural resources the key for sustainable development, are they the solution to environmental problems, or will second round effects - so-called rebound effects - compensate or even overcompensate potential savings, will they fire back? The answer to...
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A questão ambiental e a expansão da fronteira agrícola na direção do Matopiba brasileiro
Garcia, Junior Ruiz; Vieira Filho, José Eustáquio Ribeiro - 2017
Incorporate the environmental dimension to the economic analysis and the decision-making of all stakeholders is important to analyse the expansion of agricultural frontier in Brazil. Demand for natural resources and land follows the growth of the economy. In Brazil, the occupation of new areas...
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The final solutions for Common Agricultural Policy in years 2014-2020: Step towards environmental sustainability or business as usual?
Kociszewski, Karol - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 16 (2016) 1, pp. 9-20
The Paper's goal is to assess the most important changes in the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for years 2014-2020 in the context of its potential influence on environmental pressure of agriculture. The final solutions of that policy reform were discussed in relation to main...
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