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A gender-sensitive earthquake recovery assessment using administrative and satellite data : the Case of Indonesia's 2016 Aceh earthquake
Akter, Sonia; Chairunissa, Talitha Fauzia; Pundit, Madhavi - 2022
from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite instrument, distance from the earthquake epicenters collected from the … average monthly nighttime radiance and W2DI scores in earthquake-affected and unaffected villages of the Aceh Province before … and after the 2016 earthquake series. Similar to studies using the nighttime radiance to monitor disaster recovery and …
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Gender differences in climate change perceptions and adaptation strategies : an intra-household analysis from rural Kenya
Ngigi, Marther W.; Büttner, Ulrike; Birner, Regina; … - 2016
It has been widely acknowledged that the effects of climate change are not gender neutral. However, existing studies on adaptation to climate change mainly focus on a comparison of male-headed and female-headed households. Aiming at a more nuanced gender analysis, this study examines how...
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Migration and Climate Change in Rural Africa
Cattaneo, Cristina - 2015
We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it will also be an adaptation to future climate change....
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Migration and Climate Change in Rural Africa
Cattaneo, Cristina - 2015
We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it will also be an adaptation to future climate change....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026677
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How Do Endogenous Cultural Institutions (not) Shape Peasant Farmers’ Climate Adaptation Practices? Learning from Rural Cameroon
Silberberger, Magdalene; Kimengsi, Jude - 2021
The inter-linked issues of climate change and sustainable development remain high on the science and policy agenda, especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where context-specific local adaptation practices are required in her agricultural system. However, the dearth of scientific (quantitative)...
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Gender Differences in Climate Change Perceptions and Adaptation Strategies : An Intra-Household Analysis from Rural Kenya
Ngigi, Marther; Mueller, Ulrike; Birner, Regina - 2016
It has been widely acknowledged that the effects of climate change are not gender neutral. However, existing studies on adaptation to climate change mainly focus on a comparison of male-headed and female-headed households. Aiming at a more nuanced gender analysis, this study examines how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014128646
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Child labor, rainfall shocks, and financial inclusion : evidence from rural households
Bernal, Carolina; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2023
This paper examines how rural households cope with climate change related rainfall shocks by re-allocating children's time between domestic activities and school attendance. Households affected by an unanticipated rainfall shock face an inter-temporal trade-off between current household income...
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‘No Ordinary Lawsuit’ : Climate Change, Due Process, and the Public Trust Doctrine
Blumm, Michael C. - 2017
In November 2016, just two days after the election of President Donald Trump, the federal district court in Oregon handed down Juliana v. Obama, a remarkable decision that refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by youth plaintiffs who claimed that federal government's fossil fuel policies over the...
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Trust, temperature fluctuations, and asylum applications
Carattini, Stefano; Veronesi, Marcella - 2020
This paper studies the relationship between generalized trust, temperature fluctuations during the maize growing season, and international migration by asylum seekers. A priori generalized trust can be expected to have an ambiguous effect on migration. On the one hand, countries with higher...
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Unconventional Determinants of Greenhouse Gas Emissions : The Role of Trust
Carattini, Stefano; Baranzini, Andrea; Roca, Jordi - 2013
Social norms have been included in the theory of collective action to overcome difficulties in explaining why commons may perform better when self-regulated. The role of trust has been identified in several contexts of local social dilemmas, but only recently has been extended to global commons,...
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