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Flood damage, vulnerability and risk perception : challenges for flood damage research
Messner, Frank; Meyer, Volker - 2005
The current state-of-the-art in flood damage analysis mainly focuses on the economic evaluation of tangible flood effects. It is contended in this discussion paper that important economic, social and ecological aspects of flood-related vulnerabilities are neglected. It is a challenge for flood...
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Discounting and climate policy
Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2020
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Discounting and climate policy
Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2020
. Uncertainty about the future rate of growth of the economy and emissions and the risk of macroeconomic disasters (tail risks) also …
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Economic assessment of mitigating damage of flood events : cost-benefit analysis of flood-proofing commercial buildings in Umbria, Italy
Botzen, W. J. Wouter; Monteiro, Érika; Estrada, Francisco - In: The Geneva papers on risk and insurance - issues and … 42 (2017) 4, pp. 585-608
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The treatment of risk and uncertainty in the US social cost of carbon for regulatory impact analysis
Dietz, Simon - 2011
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Climate risks and carbon prices : revising the social cost of carbon
Ackerman, Frank; Stanton, Elizabeth A. - 2012
The social cost of carbon - or marginal damage caused by an additional ton of carbon dioxide emissions - has been estimated by a U.S. government working group at $21/tCO2 in 2010. That calculation, however, omits many of the biggest risks associated with climate change, and downplays the impact...
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Climate risks and carbon prices : revising the social cost of carbon
Ackerman, Frank; Stanton, Elizabeth A. - 2011
The social cost of carbon - or marginal damage caused by an additional ton of carbon dioxide emissions - has been estimated by a U.S. government working group at $21 in 2010. That calculation, however, omits many of the biggest risks associated with climate change, and downplays the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009304029
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Why uncertainty matters : discounting under intertemporal risk aversion and ambiguity
Traeger, Christian - 2012
assumption of (intertemporal) risk neutrality reduces the growth effect in social discounting and significantly amplifies the … importance of risk and correlation. Second, debate and models largely overlook the difference in attitude with respect to risk … and with respect to non-risk uncertainty. The paper derives the resulting changes of the risk-free and the stochastic …
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Monetary valuation of the social cost of CO2 emissions : a critical survey
Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den; Botzen, W. J. Wouter - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 114 (2015), pp. 33-46
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The role of scenario uncertainty in estimating the benefits of carbon mitigation
Marten, Alex L. - In: Climate change economics 5 (2014) 3, pp. 1-29
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