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This article clarifies and quantifies the causal impact of climate change vulnerability on child labour incidence and … intensity. For this purpose, we create an index of vulnerability to climate change, composed of biophysical vulnerability and … that climate vulnerability negatively affects child labour incidence and intensity, while has no significant impact on …
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map and analyze the vulnerability to climate change in different districts of four south Indian states: Andhra Pradesh …, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. We have taken five sources of vulnerability indicators: socio-demographic, climatic …, agricultural, occupational and common property resources vulnerabilities to compute the composite vulnerability index. The …
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Land Use (WASCAL) tackles this vulnerability by investigating the interface of climate and rural socia-ecological systems …
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The objective of this article is to analyze the effect of the political empowerment of women on vulnerability to …, participation of women in civil society and participation of women in political debates) reduce vulnerability to climate change. ii … vulnerability to climate change is affected by women's political empowerment. The findings are robust to alternative estimation …
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The paper traces the evolution the concept of socioeconomic vulnerability to climate change has followed in the … academic and scientific debate. The recent recognition of vulnerability as a social construction has shifted the focus of the …
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This paper investigates the vulnerability of households to climatic disasters in the low-lying atoll nation of Tuvalu …
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population vulnerability, and increasing climate-related hazards - behind the increased frequency of intense natural disasters … increase in natural disasters and population exposure, represented by population densities. Population vulnerability also … matters, but increasing incomes seem to be associated first with greater and then lesser vulnerability. Finally, there is a …
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understanding of the vulnerability attributes of WWTPs including their exact location, the number of users they serve as well as …
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