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life cycle environmental impacts. The environmental impact assessments were built on Food and Agriculture Organization …
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Using a case study approach, this research explores the various potential limiting factors of climate change adaptation …
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emissions. This has led the media, policy makers and the public to overlook industrial agriculture, one of the principal … contributors to global greenhouse emissions. Industrial agriculture – particularly industrial livestock activity – emits … oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4). In fact, greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture far exceed those from transportation. Yet …
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not only an environmental issue but also one that affect our very existence because of its direct links with agriculture … agriculture. Across South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka), large proportion of the … population depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. Most of the South Asia receives Monsoons every year, but rainfall in the …
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This paper takes up the need to engage in substantial investments in the energy producing capital stock to attack the climate change problem, caused by rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere. However, the precise magnitudes of economic impacts of global warming as well as...
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climate change. An increasing amount of research has been devoted to the analysis of the costs of climate change and its …
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In this essay, three separate yet interconnected components of pro-environmental decision making are considered: (a) knowledge, in the form of basic scientific understanding and procedural knowledge, (b) risk perception, as it relates to an individual's direct experience of climate change and...
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Uncertainty has an almost negligible impact on project value in the economic standard model. I show that a comprehensive evaluation of uncertainty and uncertainty attitude changes this picture fundamentally. The analysis relies on the discount rate, which is the crucial determinant in balancing...
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This paper takes up the need to engage in substantial investments in the energy producing capital stock to attack the climate change problem, caused by rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere. However, the precise magnitudes of economic impacts of global warming as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008749605