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The Climate and Development Challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean: Options for Climate-Resilient, Low-Carbon Development Title: El desafío climático y de desarrollo en Amér...
Vergara, Walter; Rios, Ana R.; Paliza, Luis Miguel Galindo - Inter-American Development Bank
This book is a joint effort lead by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in collaboration with the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) focused on the climate and development challenge for LAC. It deals with a matter that is bound...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011249349
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Climate Change and the Caribbean: Areas of Intervention: Financing for the Caribbean Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Unit (ECC), Infrastructure and Environment Department (IN...
Alleng, Gerard - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This presentation discusses the cost of impacts of climate change on the Caribbean. The response of adaptation will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294058
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Climate Change Adaptation and Water Resources in the Caribbean Region
Charlery, John - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
Presentation on climate change adaptation in the Caribbean for a capacity building workshop. Topics discussed include …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010673043
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Climate Change: A Research Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean
Chisari, Omar O.; Galiani, Sebastián - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This research agenda outlines pertinent issues needed to produce an informed assessment of the strategies and policies LAC and international organizations should adopt with respect to climate change. The report makes three contributions: i) identifying actions that could be valuable but have not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010674069
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The Climate and Development Challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean: Options for Climate-Resilient, Low-Carbon Development
Vergara, Walter; Rios, Ana R.; Paliza, Luis Miguel Galindo - Inter-American Development Bank
This book is a joint effort lead by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in collaboration with the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) focused on the climate and development challenge for LAC. It deals with a matter that is bound...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772468
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Agricultural productivity in the lower Mekong Basin: trends and future prospects for food security
Mainuddin, Mohammed; Kirby, Mac - In: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production … 1 (2009) 1, pp. 71-82
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008515598
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Impactos das mudanças climáticas sobre o bem-estar relacionado à saúde no Brasil
Souza, Elvanio Costa de; Coelho, Alexandre Bragança; … - In: Pesquisa e Planejamento Econômico - PPE 43 (2013) 1, pp. 49-88
thermal comfort and to preserve individuals’ health. Adaptation to new climate conditions may increase annual residential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010965645
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Fiscal implications of climate change
Jones, Benjamin; Keen, Michael; Strand, Jon - In: International Tax and Public Finance 20 (2013) 1, pp. 29-70
Climate change is an externality problem—so the challenges that arise in limiting it and dealing with the effects that remain are largely fiscal. The structure of the problem, however, and the uncertainty which surrounds it, make the design of proper policy responses particularly complex. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010988682
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Public perception, knowledge and policy support for mitigation and adaption to Climate Change in Costa Rica: Comparisons with North American and European studies
Vignola, R.; Klinsky, S.; Tam, J.; McDaniels, T. - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 18 (2013) 3, pp. 303-323
(11.7%) are the most expected impacts of climate change. Analysis of adaptation behaviour responses suggest that … behaviours largely for financial or contextual reasons. Finally, support for adaptation and mitigation policy responses is … protection increasing the water tariffs (52.5%). As discussions about mitigation and adaptation become increasingly common within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010994752
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Tailor-made scenario planning for local adaptation to climate change
Carlsen, Henrik; Dreborg, Karl; Wikman-Svahn, Per - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 18 (2013) 8, pp. 1239-1255
This paper presents a tailor-made scenario approach for climate change adaptation planning, which emphasises … approach facilitated the engagement of the local planning body in climate change adaptation and helped them to analyse …
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