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Global warming is an example of a global tragedy of the commons. The atmosphere is a global common property resource. The global nature of this resource makes global warming a particularly difficult problem to solve. The reason for this is that there is no world government that can introduce and...
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role that local institutions play in this context. Chapter 2 analyzes how greenhouse gas emissions of companies in OECD and …
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In this paper, the mechanisms of climate change impacts on the incidence of civil conflict are tested separately in Sub … civil conflict, in SSA and MENA, respectively. (iii) A direct impact of climate change on civil conflict is identified. (iv …) Conflict in the previous year increases the probability of civil conflict in SSA by 0.30 pp, and in the MENA by 0.50 pp …
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our data. We integrate conflict data from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) with spatially … disaggregated microdata to analyze how AOGLs influence conflict incidence across regions of Nigeria. Our findings indicate limited … laws have led to a slight increase in overall conflict within the states implementing them, arguably due to increased …
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This paper develops a model of unified growth based on a positive feed back between growth and longevity. The model explains the historical development of industrialized countries as well as why tropical countries did not follow the same path. It also gives a mechanism for conditional...
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between extreme temperature days and conflict. We show that the occurrence of conflict events increases with extreme maximum … temperature days, whereas days with extreme minimum temperature decrease the occurrence of conflict. Because climate change makes … conflict, actors involved and population affected, indicating complex distributional consequences. …
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This paper provides an analysis of the impact of extraordinary climate shocks on the incidence of civil conflict using … conflict, where this impact is similar in magnitude to the negative impact of rainfall growth on conflict (3-4%). (iii) We … confirmed the negative link between conflict and both economic indicators, conflict begets next conflict, the positive impact of …
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