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; rural households ; adaptation ; risk-coping mechanisms ; long-term effects …
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This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and challenges related to long-term shifts in temperature, rainfall patterns, water availability, and...
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Climate adaptation is today a priority for developing countries particularly LDCs. Agriculture is an important sector … Mkomazi sub-catchment, Tanzania (for example, shifts in crop production areas, crop growing patterns and type of crops grown …
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This paper explores the resilience capacity of rural Ethiopian households after the drought shock occurred in 2011. The work develops an original empirical framework able to capture the policy and socio-economic determinants of households’ resilience capacity by making parametric statistical...
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Using detailed data on the beneficiaries of the Korean National Health Insurance Service (c.2006-2015), this paper estimates the health effects of air pollution in South Korea while controlling for avoidance behaviors. In particular, I investigate changes in the respiratory hospitalization rates...
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each model. The framework is used to analyze the adaptation vs. mitigation dilemma and provides a simple criterion to … determine whether adaptation activities should be undertaken promptly, delayed to some future date, or avoided altogether …. -- environmental pollution ; optimal management ; catastrophic transitions ; uncertainty ; adaptation ; mitigation …
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This paper empirically analyzes the determinants of individual tourism-related adaptation to climate change, i.e. the …-related adaptation to climate change in the amount of more than 22% of the respondents. Our micro-econometric analysis with binary probit … adaptation. The estimation results suggest no single significant effect of a high educational level or a high level of …
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change towards 2050. In the absence of externally funded policy-driven adaptation investments Ethiopia's GDP in the 2040s … will be up to 10 percent below the counterfactual no-climate change baseline. Suitably scaled adaptation measures could … change. -- CGE analysis ; global warming ; growth ; adaptation costs ; development …
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claims is adaptation through innovation. The overall objective of this thesis is to investigate how the perception of climate …
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