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P roponents of large dams, hoping to capitalize on concern for climate change, are promoting a major expansion of large dams in developing countries. Yet large dams are highly vulnerable to climate change, which is changing rivers in ways we cannot predict. At the same time, healthy rivers are...
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Die Tourismusstrategie Sachsen 2020 legte im Jahr 2011 wichtige Quellmärkte für den Tourismus in Sachsen fest. Dabei …
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This paper investigates the determinants of tourism demand in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union. We estimate the … demand function in a panel setting using annual data from 1979 to 2005. Results show that tourism arrivals are significantly … servicing a destination, are also found to be significant determinants of tourism demand. …
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An opening of Cuba to U.S. tourism would represent a seismic shift in the Caribbean's tourism industry. This study … on tourism between the two countries. After controlling for natural disasters, trade agreements, and other factors, the … results show that a hypothetical liberalization of Cuba-U.S. tourism would increase long-term regional arrivals. Neighboring …
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This report includes the proceedings of the Seminar on Climate Change and Severe Weather Events in the Caribbean and Asia, held in Barbados at the Grand Barbados Beach Resort on July 24-25, 2003. The seminar provided a forum in which experts from the Southeast Asian and Caribbean regions...
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This presentation discusses the cost of impacts of climate change on the Caribbean. The response of adaptation will need to be applied towards an integral strategy to build on disaster risk reduction best practices and climate risk management. The response of the IDB to the climate change needs...
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The two-way relationship between tourism and Climate Change has important economic and developmental implications for … relationship between tourism and climate change in order to establish the current state of corporate and institutional responses in … the tourism industry and to set out an agenda for research. Methodology: As this is a literature review paper, a …
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tourism flows, induced by climate change, for some Mediterranean countries. Estimates by a regional climate model are used to … build a Tourism Climate Index, which indicates the suitability of climate, in certain locations, for general outdoor … tourism flows by means of a computable general equilibrium model. We found that more incoming tourists will increase income …
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