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Climate change scepticism and public support for mitigation: evidence from an Australian choice experiment
Ward, Michael B.; Akter, Sonia; Bennett, Jeff - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2013
Public scepticism surrounding climate change is an obstacle for implementing climate change mitigation measures in many countries. However, very little is known about: (1) the nature and sources of climate change scepticism; and (2) its influence on preferences for climate change mitigation...
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Climate Change and Agricultural Production Title: El cambio climático y la producción agrícola
Ortiz, Rodomiro - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This document discusses the impact that global climate change has on food production both globally and in Latin America and the Caribbean. The author discusses environmental issues including extreme temperatures, water scarcity, flooding, and soil erosion. Using available information, this...
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Assessing the environmental externalities from biofuels in Australia
Cuevas-Cubria, Clara - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2009
In Australia, as in other countries, the environmental costs and benefits of biofuel production and use have been found … Australia has been found to provide greater environmental benefits than ethanol, both in terms of reduced greenhouse gas (GHG … substituting biofuels for petroleum fuels in Australia. These estimates of externalities highlight the need to better understand …
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To What Extent is Business Responding to Climate Change? Evidence from a Global Wine Producer
Galbreath, Jeremy - In: Journal of Business Ethics 104 (2011) 3, pp. 421-432
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Informed and Uninformed Opinions on New Measures to Address Climate Change
Kniebes, Carola; Merk, Christine; Pönitzsch, Gert; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
Climate engineering (CE) and carbon capture and storage sub-seabed (CCS-S) are currently controversially debated options to address climate change. Our paper provides empirical evidence on the public perception of two different CE measures, namely, stratospheric sulphate injection (SSI) and...
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Revealing climate change opinions through investment behavior: Evidence from Fukushima
Lei, Zhen; Shcherbakova, Anastasia V. - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 70 (2015) C, pp. 92-108
In this study we present a novel research approach to obtaining behavior-based evidence of regional climate change attitudes, using the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant incident as a natural experiment. Our approach allows us to produce the first non-survey-based empirical evidence of a...
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Stakeholder Engagement in Preparing Investment Plans for the Climate Investment Funds: Case Studies from Asia - Second Edition
Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013
Since the inception of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has participated in the preparation of 15 investment plans covering the two main CIF funds, the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) and the Strategic Climate Fund (SCF). The SCF comprises three separate...
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Global Markets, Global Citizens, and Global Governance in the 21st Century
Nancy Birdsall, Christian Meyer, Alexis Sowa - 2013
The politics, rules, and institutions of cooperation among nations have not kept up with the demands from global citizens for changes in the global political order. Whether norms and policies can make the global politics of managing the global economy more effective, more legitimate, and more...
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Comparing climate change awareness, perceptions, and beliefs of college students in the United States and China
Jamelske, Eric; Barrett, James; Boulter, James - In: Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 3 (2013) 3, pp. 269-278
Despite the overwhelming scientific consensus, climate change is a divisive national and international policy issue. There is still much public debate and uncertainty regarding the reality of climate change and the degree to which human activities are responsible. In terms of climate change...
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Climate change and extreme weather in the USA: discourse analysis and strategies for an emerging ‘public’
Smith, Adam; Jenkins, Katie - In: Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 3 (2013) 3, pp. 259-268
This paper discusses how economic impacts of extreme weather events in the USA could, and are, leading to the creation of an ‘extreme weather public’ whose discourse has the opportunity to break the deadlock currently surrounding issues of State and Federal adaptation strategies. By taking...
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