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Monthly temperature and precipitation by state and farm production region are presented for the years 1950-86. A …
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Monthly temperature and precipitation by State and farm production region are presented for the years 1950-84. A …
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Monthly temperature and precipitation by State and farm production region are presented. A weighted average is used to …
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changing variables (climate, geography, laws, etc.) on the U.S. state traffic fatality rate using alternative econometric … methods in addition to the FE estimator. We find that alcohol consumption, air temperature, and precipitation have the largest …-evaluate the role of climate in road safety. …
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Climate change is the defining development challenge of our time. More than a global environmental issue, climate …) emissions,1 but communities across the region are already suffering adverse consequences from climate change and variability (De … a Changing Climate” (Verner 2010), climate change is likely to have unprecedented social, economic, environmental, and …
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Tourism is one of the largest and fastest growing economic sectors. Tourism is obviously related to climate, as … literature pays little attention to climate and climatic change and it is equally surprising that the climate change impact … literature pays little attention to tourism. The number of studies on tourism and climate change is, however, starting to grow …
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There are significant differences in the way water rights are defined, allocated and administered in Australia and …
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We examine the effect of rainfall shocks on dowry deaths using data from 583 Indian districts for 2002–2007. We find that a one standard deviation decline in annual rainfall from the local mean increases reported dowry deaths by 7.8%. Wet shocks have no apparent effect. We examine patterns of...
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through all their features, and one of them is the climate. When we talk about tourism in rural areas as an alternative form … of tourism, we have to look at the climate characteristics from a different perspective, because alternative forms of … is not good to have extreme temperatures and climate both in the positive and the negative terms in the area in which …
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