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Establishing intergenerational relationships in unlikely collaborative educational contexts

Moreno Abellán, Pedro; de Miguel López, Silvia Martínez - In: Risks 10 (2022) 3, pp. 1-14

participation and a relationship between two different age groups: the young Social Education students and the elderly. It has a … double purpose: to promote that reciprocal space for cooperation and interaction in a way that avoids the risk of … education from a wide-open inclusive perspective to take advantage of senior talent and innovation. …

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Integration of fuzzy reasoning approach (FRA) and fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) for risk assessment in mining industry

Verma, Shikha; Chaudhri, Sharad - In: Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (JIEM) 7 (2014) 5, pp. 1347-1367

hazard prone industries. To maintain safety in workplace timely assessment of risk associated with different operations … development of plan of mitigation. Originality/Value: Risk assessment is a requirement of the Occupational Health and Safety Act … hybrid risk assessment approach for mining industry. Design/Methodology: Accident data from 1995 to 2012 is reviewed to …

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Adaptive approaches to REDD+ are needed for countries with high forest cover and low deforestation rates

Schweikart, Melanie; Mertz, Ole; Müller, Daniel - In: Environmental Research Letters 17 (2022) 11, pp. 1-10

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) aims to maintain forest carbon stocks above benchmark reference levels through financial compensation. However, countries with high forest cover and low deforestation (HFLD) are unlikely to be compensated fairly if REDD+...

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Climate policy integration in a land use system with ecological thresholds

Lopez, Martin - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 19 (2019) 1, pp. 113-135

The land use sector is an area with high potential to pursue mitigation and adaptation goals alike. However, due to the … policy integration -the joint implementation of mitigation and adaptation measures- in the presence ecological thresholds …

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A Scheme for Jointly Trading off Costs and Risks of Solar Radiation Management and Mitigation Under Long-Tailed Climate Sensitivity Probability Density Distributions

Roshan, Elnaz; Khabbazan, Mohammad M.; Held, Hermann - In: Environmental Modeling & Assessment 26 (2021) 5, pp. 823-836

implementing SRM as a climate policy option to alleviate anthropogenic global warming. We generalize cost-risk analysis that … function for the following three scenarios, considering alternative relative weights of risks: temperature-risk …-only, precipitation-risk-only, and equally-weighted both-risks. Our analysis shows that in the temperature-risk-only scenario, perfect …

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Climate change adaptation, coffee, and corporate social responsibility: Challenges and opportunities

Bianco, Gino B. - In: International Journal of Corporate Social … 5 (2020) 1, pp. 1-13

Climate change is making a profound impact on agricultural production across the globe. Coffee (especially the Arabica variety) is one of the most severely affected crops. Adaptive measures are therefore needed to ensure the industry's survival. Although large coffee companies have a long...

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Chinese food security and climate change: Agriculture futures

Ye, Liming; Tang, Huajun; Wu, Wenbin; Yang, Peng; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 8 (2014) 2014-1, pp. 1-39

Climate change is now affecting agriculture and food production in every country of the world. Here the authors present the IMPACT model results on yield, production, and net trade of major crops in China, and on daily calorie availability as an overall indicator of food security under climate...

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Leakage protection for carbon-intensive materials post-2020

Neuhoff, Karsten; Acworth, William; Ismer, Roland; … - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2015) 28/29, pp. 397-404

incentives for emission mitigation across the value chain. If ex-ante or dynamic free allocation of emission allowances is used … share of mitigation opportunities cannot be realized. Combining dynamic allocation of allowances with a consumption charge …

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Modernization and innovation in the materials sector: Lessons from steel and cement

Neuhoff, Karsten; Ancygier, Andrzej; Ponssard, Jean-Pierre - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2015) 28/29, pp. 387-395

Since 2007, the European cement and steel sectors have been characterized by substantial surplus production capacity. Hence re-investment in primary production of many materials remains limited and endangers the longer-term economic viability of many plants. Opportunities for innovation and...

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Methane: A Neglected Greenhouse Gas

Kemfert, Claudia; Schill, Wolf-Peter - In: Weekly Report 5 (2009) 32, pp. 218-223

Methane is a greenhouse gas that gets far less public attention than carbon dioxide. This is entirely unwarranted. Being 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide in trapping heat in the atmosphere, methane accounts for about one-sixth of all anthropogenic (i.e. human-induced) greenhouse gas...

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