The attractiveness of a tourist destination is partly dependent on its environmental and climatic resource base. Climate change can be expected to have an effect on this attractiveness and will subsequently alter patterns of demand. An application of the pooled travel cost model using survey...

Countries with the highest labor productivity overwhelmingly lie in the world's temperate climatic zones far away from the equator. The question we address is whether climatic conditions as measured by distance from the equator remain correlated with labor productivity after other variables are...

This research examines variations in the diffusion of agriculture across countries and archaeological sites. The theory suggests that a society´s history of climatic shocks shaped the timing of its adoption of farming. Specifically, as long as climatic disturbances did not lead to a collapse of...

Die Frage nach der zukünftigen Rolle der Kernenergie im internationalen Energiemix wird kontrovers diskutiert. Ein weltweit steigender Energiebedarf in Verbindung mit dem Bestreben nach einer CO2-armen Energieerzeugung und begrenzten technischen Möglichkeiten im Einsatz erneuerbarer Energien...