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Climate change and coastal zones: An overview of the state-of-the-art on regional and local vulnerability assessment

Sterr, Horst; Klein, Richard; Reese, Stefan - 2000

This paper provides an overview of the latest developments in methodologies for assessing the vulnerability of coastal … zones to climate change at regional and local scales. The focus of vulnerability assessment in coastal zones used to be on … variables that play a part in determining coastal vulnerability, as well as non-climatic developments. The paper presents a …

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Once You Are In You Might Need to Get Out: Adaptation and Adaptability in Volatile Labor Markets—the Case of Musical Actors

Ibert, Oliver; Schmidt, Suntje - In: Social Sciences 3 (2014) 1, pp. 1-23

The labor market for musical actors is very challenging for several reasons. On the one hand, it is difficult to acquire a position: qualification requirements are high, competition is fierce and reputation is difficult to build up. On the other hand, once in it is often necessary to get out:...

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Life Satisfaction, Subjective Wealth, and Adaptation to Vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2017

Dang, Hai-Anh; Abanokova, Kseniya; Lokshin, Michael - 2020

We offer the first study on vulnerability adaptation to subjective well-being, using rich panel data over the past two … decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction and subjective wealth, with longer … vulnerability spells being associated with more negative subjective welfare. Similar results hold for other outcomes including …

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Cost and impact analysis of sea level rise on coastal Vietnam

Chinowsky, Paul S.; Schweikert, Amy E.; Strzepek, Niko L. - 2014

The Development under Climate Change research effort provides a basis for determining quantitative impacts on infrastructure from climate change. This paper provides results of an analysis of sea level rise impacts on road infrastructure in Vietnam. The study utilizes a quantitative approach for...