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Exploratory analysis of resource demand and the environmental footprint of future aquaculture development using Life Cycle Assessment
Mungkung, R.; Phillips, M.; Castine, S.; Beveridge, M.; … - WorldFish Center, Consultative Group on International …
Increases in fish demand in the coming decades are projected to be largely met by growth of aquaculture. However …, increased aquaculture production is linked to higher demand for natural resources and energy as well as emissions to the … future aquaculture growth. Different scenarios of future aquaculture development are taken into account in calculating the …
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Vision 2050: changement climatique, pΩche et aquaculture en Afrique de l™Ouest Du 14 au 16 avril 2010, Dakar, SΘnΘgal
Badjeck, M.C.; Katikiro, R.E.; Flitner, M.; Diop, N.; … - WorldFish Center, Consultative Group on International …
aquaculture en Afrique de l™Ouest. Les objectifs de l™atelier Θtaient de discuter les questions critiques et les incertitudes … auxquelles est confrontΘ le secteur de la pΩche et de l™aquaculture au Ghana, au SΘnΘgal et en Mauritanie, d™Î˜laborer des …
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The option value of investments in energy-efficient and renewable energy technologies
Nicodemus, Gerd - 2010
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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Fish for the future: Fisheries development and food security for Kiribati in an era of global climate change
Campbell, B.; Hanich, Q. - WorldFish Center, Consultative Group on International …
-scale, domestic, inshore subsistence fisheries, aquaculture and recreational fisheries. Kiribati has developed a framework of domestic …
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The Macroeconomics evaluation of Climate Change Model (MECC-Model): The case Study of China
Estrada, Ruiz; Arturo, Mario - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Global climate change has a potentially large impact on economic growth but measuring their economic impact is subject to a great deal of uncertainty. The central objective of our paper is to set forth a model – the macroeconomics evaluation of climate change (MECC) model – to evaluate the...
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Scoping report: Current status of index-based insurance in Bangladesh
Ahmed, T. - WorldFish Center, Consultative Group on International …
With current and anticipated increases in magnitude of extreme weather events and a declining consistency in weather patterns, particularly challenging for agriculture, there has been a growing interest in weather index-based insurance (IBI) schemes in Bangladesh. A number of weather index-based...
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Linking climate change, rice yield, and migration: the Philippine experience
Bordey, F.H.; Launio, C.C.; Quilang, E.J.P.; Tolentino, … - WorldFish Center, Consultative Group on International …
This study tests the hypothesis that climate change, through its rice productivity impacts, induces out-migration in the Philippines. Results show that climate change effects such as increasing night time temperature and extreme rainfall pattern, by way of reduction in rice yield and farm...
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Weather Index Insurance: Lessons Learned and Best Practices for Bangladesh Workshop Report, 8-9 September 2013, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Ahmed, T.; Hasemann, A.; WorldFish - WorldFish Center, Consultative Group on International …
WorldFish and the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) held a two-day workshop on the topic of Weather Index-Based Insurance: Lessons Learned and Best Practices for Bangladesh. Weather index insurance is based on a predefined weather event which when triggered ensures...
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Cambio climático y sustentabilidad económica y social: implicaciones sobre el bienestar social
Bono, Emèrit - In: CIRIEC-España, revista de economía pública, social y … (2008) 61, pp. 51-72
This article puts forward an explanation of climate change within the context of global change. Climate change can be seen as the spearhead; as a manifestation of the increasing unsustainability of planet Earth. We consider some of the effects of this change, examining its uneven impact on...
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Optimal climate policy: Uncertainty versus Monte Carlo
Crost, Benjamin; Traeger, Christian P. - In: Economics Letters 120 (2013) 3, pp. 552-558
The integrated assessment literature frequently replicates uncertainty by averaging Monte Carlo runs of deterministic models. This Monte Carlo analysis is, in essence, an averaged sensitivity analyses. The approach resolves all uncertainty before the first time period, drawing parameters from a...
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