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Adler, Jonathan H. - 2014

Water policy experts contend that the United States is heading toward a water scarcity crisis in the coming years. Global climate change is likely to make water scarcity much worse in the long run. This article argues that demands of current and projected water management challenges can best be...

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Climate change, water scarcity in agriculture and the economy-wide impacts in a CGE framework

Ponce, Roberto; Parrado, Ramiro; Stehr, Alejandra; … - 2016

, precipitation changes, and unitary irrigation costs. Results suggest different economic consequences of climate change depending on …

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Climate Change, Water Scarcity in Agriculture and the Economy-Wide Impacts in a CGE Framework

Ponce, Roberto - 2017

, precipitation changes, and unitary irrigation costs. Results suggest different economic consequences of climate change depending on …

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Effectiveness of Weather Derivatives as a Cross-Hedging Instrument Against Climate Change : The Cases of Reservoir Water Allocation Management in Guanajuato, Mexico and Lambayeque,...

Juarez-Torres, Miriam - 2013

design of water systems, institutions and infrastructure- could hinder the implementation of adaptation policies in water … successful adoption of more efficient water allocations in irrigation districts. Weather derivatives spread risks and incorporate … a better understanding of climate system behavior, strengthening irrigation districts' ability to deal with water …

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The Middle East : Climate Change, Water Insecurity and Hydrodiplomacy

Kornfeld, Itzchak E. - 2015

During the 1990s scholarship about water security abounded. However that debate abated at the ‎turn of this century. This lack of exploration is surprising, particularly given the negative impacts ‎of climate change upon the world's water resources, and the concomitant water insecurity that...

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Chapter 1. Geophysical and Geochemical Aspects of Environmental Degradation

Bolin, Bert - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 1, …, (pp. 7-59). 2003

The environmental system is characterized by an interplay of geophysical and geochemical processes that provide a setting for life. Now that human interventions are affecting the global system as a whole, it is important to distinguish between changes of natural origin and changes brought about...

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Integrating climate policies in the European environment: A policy report

Carraro, Carlo; Goria, Alessandra - 1999

This report summarises the main ideas, proposals, scientific achievements, consensus and conflicting issues that emerged at the Second EFIEA Policy Workshop, held at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Palazzo delle Stelline, Corso Magenta 63, Milan, Italy, March 4th-6th, 1999. EFIEA, the European...

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Overlapping Climate Clubs Under Transaction Costs

Delfino Silva, Emilson - 2018

We examine the formation of multilateral, hub-and-spoke and bilateral international R&D strategic alliances (overlapping climate clubs) to reduce CO2 emissions. R&D provision in clubs produces two types of positive externalities: a global public good (i.e., reduction of CO2 emissions) and...

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Energy Policy, Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer to Address Climate Change

Burleson, Elizabeth - 2014

A weather beaten economy has become a wake up call. The International Energy Agency predicts that carbon emissions will rise 130 percent and oil demand will rise 70 percent by 2050. A sound energy policy that addresses climate change relies upon widespread transfer and implementation of...

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Emerging Law Addressing Climate Change and Water

Burleson, Elizabeth - 2015

The World Economic Forum recognizes that while restrictions on energy affect water systems and vise versa, energy and water policy are rarely coordinated. The International Panel on Climate Change predicts that wet places will become wetter and dry places will become dryer. Transboundary water,...

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