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Global increase in climate-related disasters
Thomas, Vinod; López, Ramón - 2015
side and anthropogenic climate change on the other? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors - rising … intense climate-related natural disasters. In a regression analysis within a model of disaster risk determination for 1971 … implication is that climate mitigation and climate adaptation should form part of actions for disaster risk reduction. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404649
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Global Increase in Climate-Related Disasters
Thomas, Vinod - 2015
side and anthropogenic climate change on the other? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors — rising … intense climate-related natural disasters.In a regression analysis within a model of disaster risk determination for 1971 … implication is that climate mitigation and climate adaptation should form part of actions for disaster risk reduction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009390
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Climate risks and global value chains : the impact of the 2011 thailand flood on swedish firms
Forslid, Rikard; Sanctuary, Mark - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013503433
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How Much More Exposed are the Poor to Natural Disasters? Global and Regional Measurement
Kim, Namsuk - 2012
1970s and the 2000s is driven significantly by the increased concentration of the poor (26 percent) in disaster-prone areas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108424
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Covid-19 and climate change : a tale of two global problems
Fuentes, Rolando; Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro; … - 2020
In this paper, we examine the similarities and the differences between two global problems, the Coronavirus pandemic and climate change, and the extent to which the experience with the Covid19 pandemic can be of use for tackling climate change. We show that both problems share the same...
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Integrating the planetary boundaries and global catastrophic risk paradigms
Baum, Seth D.; Handoh, Itsuki C. - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 107 (2014), pp. 13-21
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Pandemics and the role of governments
Tanzi, Vito - In: Acta oeconomica : periodical of the Hungarian Academy … 71 (2021), pp. 5-11
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Understanding and adapting to sea-level rise
Nunn, Patrick D. - In: Global environmental issues, (pp. 87-104). 2012
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Global Catastrophes : The Most Extreme Risks
Baum, Seth - 2017
important to address because they threaten everyone around the world and future generations. Global catastrophic risks also pose …
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Regional low-emission pathways from global models
Soest, Heleen van; Reis, Lara Aleluia; Vuuren, Detlef P. van - 2015
Governments worldwide have agreed that international climate policy should aim to limit the increase of global mean temperature to less than 2oC with respect to pre-industrial levels. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the emission reductions and related energy system changes in various...
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