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Carrying capacity in Danube's Delta: Link between local economy development and environmental resources protection
Pop, Ruxandra-Eugenia - 2022
During COASTAL project, financed through Horizon 2020 program, research team carried out a modelling activity, for the three main economic activities for Danube's Delta study case area: agriculture, aquaculture and tourism. Regarding the tourism in Danube's Delta region, we wanted to find the...
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Economic Development and Resilience to Natural Catastrophes – Insurance Penetration and Institutions
Breckner, Miriam; Englmaier, Florian; Stowasser, Till; … - 2016
This paper provides new evidence on the negative effect of natural catastrophes on economic development. The findings indicate that private insurance markets accommodate the negative effects of natural catastrophes in developed countries, whereas they do not seem to be effective in developing...
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Kyoto and the carbon content of trade
Aichele, Rahel; Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2010
A unilateral tax on CO2 emissions may drive up indirect carbon imports from non-committed countries, leading to carbon leakage. Using a gravity model of carbon trade, we analyze the effect of the Kyoto Protocol on the carbon content of bilateral trade. We construct a novel data set of CO2...
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Coalition Formation with Border Carbon Adjustment
Schopf, Mark - 2020
The present paper analyzes the impact of a climate coalition's border carbon adjustment on emissions from commodity production, welfare and the coalition size. The coalition implements border carbon adjustment to reduce carbon leakage and to improve its terms of trade, while the fringe abstains...
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Climate Anomalies and International Migration: A Disaggregated Analysis for West Africa
Reichert, Arndt; Martinez Flores, Fernanda; Milusheva, Sveta - 2021
West Africa is vulnerable to negative impacts of climate change and a potential channel of adjustment is migration. Using novel geo-referenced and high-frequency data, we investigate the extent to which soil moisture anomalies have an impact on international migration within the region and...
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How is mobile broadband intensity affecting CO2 emissions? – A macro analysis
Edquist, Harald; Bergmark, Pernilla - 2022
This paper investigates the association between relative mobile broadband penetration and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions globally. The study is based on 181 countries for the period 2002-2020. The results indicate an initial increase in CO2 emissions for a country at an average emission level...
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Modelling the impacts of a national carbon tax in a country with inhomogeneous regional development: an actor-based system-dynamic approach
Kovalevsky, Dmitry V.; Hasselmann, Klaus - 2014
warming develops. It is thus important that the impacts of climate mitigation policies are assessed not only on global and … national levels, but also on the regional level. The key tool for assessing the efficiency of climate mitigation policies and … function. We compare a business-as-usual scenario (no mitigation policy) with various mitigation scenarios with different …
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Food production versus population from food security perspective
Raluca, Andreea Ion; Petre, Ionut Laurentiu - 2023
The food-population ratio has two determinants: population and agricultural production. The population is constantly growing, putting pressure on existing resources, which are becoming insufficient. Globally, agricultural production has grown at the same rate as population growth, but at...
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Financing Agricultural Development: The Political Economy of Public Spending on Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
Birner, Regina; Palaniswamy, Nethra - 2006
Acknowledging that the agricultural sector can play an important role as an engine of pro-poor growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, the purpose of this paper is to identify the factors that influence the 'political will' of governments to support this sector. The concept of 'political resources' from...
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Public policy for the agro-food industry and economic performances: evidences from Piedmont, Italy
Pagliarino, Elena; Cariola, Monica; Pavone, Sara; … - 2014
The European Union has a common rural development policy, motivated by the fact that more than 90% of the entire European territory can be classified as rural and 56% of European citizens live in rural areas. Each Member State sets out a Rural Development Programme (RDP) focused on three main...
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