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Using Pakistan and the Arctic as examples, this article examines security challenges arising from climate change …, collaborative solutions focused broadly on adaptation to climate change, most particularly the effects of “ecomigration”. Nations …. Pakistan is in crisis, and climate change, a transnational phenomenon perhaps better characterized as radical enviro …
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Among the major challenges currently faced by humanity are food security and climate change. Agriculture plays a … significant role in both. Adapting to climate change is expected to be an increasing issue for agriculture and food security in … the next decades. At the same time, agriculture is part of the solution in mitigating climate change: by both reducing and …
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This paper investigates the interrelation between adaptation and climate protection efforts of individuals in a cross …, private adaptation and climate protection activities are determined by different factors and thus cannot be substitutes …. Considering seven climate protection and four adaptation measures, these theoretical predictions are tested empirically using …
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Climate change adaptation in Germany is performed on several policy levels. Based on the economic theory of adaptation … policy, this paper analyses shortcomings of the German adaptation policy approach. These were found in the following areas …: ambiguous distinction between justified government interventions and private autonomous adaptation responsibilities, non …
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The economic implications of adaptation to climate change are crucial for the design of a distinctive adaptation policy … climate adaptation policy. First, the justified interventions of the public authorities are identified from the economic … theory point of view. These public interventions include actions aimed at the elimination of private and public adaptation …
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This paper discusses structure, impact, costs, and efficiency of renewable energy supply in the eight largest advanced economies (the G-7 plus Spain), with focus on Germany. Renewables production costs are compared to benefits, defined as reductions in net carbon emissions; technological...
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<Para ID="Par1">Though many seem to view climate change-related deviations in the Arctic as nothing more than as a … distant early warning for the ‘rest of us’, new research indicates that loss of Arctic sea ice could be affecting the jet …
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in the literature. This paper synthesizes the rationale for capacity building in climate change and the adaptation or …Basically, climate change refers to any change in climate overtime, generally caused by natural variability and … farmers how to cope with climate change. Consequently, there is a need to develop appropriate teaching package for the …
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-Saharan Africa will likely bear the brunt of adverse impacts. Adaptation plays an important role in reducing vulnerability to climate … adaptation to climate change. …The climate is changing and global mean temperatures have increased this is expected to have profound effects on food …
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past and future climate change, despite strong evidence of a changing climate. They have relied on historical data … climate. New investments designed to these historical risk standards may suffer excess damages and poor returns. This paper …
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