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On the relevance of economic preferences, values, norms, and socio-demographics for electricity consumption

Groh, Elke D.; Ziegler, Andreas - 2020

As long as electricity is generated from fossil fuels, the reduction of its consumption is an important direction for climate protection and related policy measures. Based on data of more than 3700 respondents in Germany, we thus empirically examine the relevance of a large set of well-known...

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Evaluating the Effects of ICT Core Elements on CO2 Emissions: Recent Evidence from OECD Countries

Briglauer, Wolfgang; Köppl-Turyna, Monika; … - 2022

Digitization related services and applications are based on the information and comm unications technology (ICT) ecosystem and encompass almost all areas of society and economic sectors nowadays and exert numerous opposing effects in regard to electricity c onsumption and corresponding CO2...

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Mitigation vs. adaptation: A critical overview of EU climate change policies and their impact on agriculture

Marius, Cosmin Boiangiu - 2017

. Mitigation policies have a strict compliance regime using both positive and negative reinforcement. On the other side, adaptation … policies and adaptation policies. It concludes that in the absence of matching binding commitments from other large emitters of … societal and economic adaptation to the new climate conditions and, on short-term, more focus on adaptation policies in …

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Is Posner right? An empirical test of the Posner argument for transferring health spending from old women to old men

Wunder, Christoph; Schwarze, Johannes - 2010

of life satisfaction in the control group serves as a reference to measure the degree of adaptation to widowhood. In the …

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Effects of controlling saline water intrusion in an empoldered area of Bangladesh

Rahman, Mohammad Chhiddikur; Miah, Tofazzal Hossain; … - 2015

The study explores the effects of controlling saline water intrusion into coastal polder areas of Bangladesh. The study was conducted at the Dacope Upazila of Khulna District (Polder 31) using a predesigned and pretested interview schedule involving 200 farmers. Profitability and undiscounted...

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Subjective Well Being and the Impact of Climate Change

Grün, Carola; Grunewald, Nicole - 2010

We analyze the relationship between subjective well-being as a non-income welfare measure and climate variables such as temperature, precipitation rates or cloud covered days. Therewith, we estimate the effects from events related to climate change on subjective well-being and point out possible...

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Flood risk management in Spatial Planning of Estonian Coastal regions

Looring, Merle - 2013

Adapting to climate change in spatial planning of coastal municipalities needs further development of the resilience approach as well as identifying how it can be practically used in local actions. It is necessary develop coastal management strategies including spatial planning that can be...

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Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters in Megacities: The Case of Floods in São Paulo, Brazil

Haddad, Eduardo; Teixeira, Eliane - 2013

The city of São Paulo, home to 11 million people, suffers constantly the effects of flooding caused by extreme precipitation. Localized floods occur every summer in various parts of the city. Besides the losses and inconvenience felt by the residents, floods produce damages that cross the city...

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The Evaluation of Energy Efficiency in Turkey

OGUZTIMUR, SENAY - 2013

Global climate change is one of the most important and complex problem challenging the world community. The impact of the climate change on the nature and human kind will likely be destructive. Even though the international community is aware of consequences, there is still a lack of political...

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City silhouette, world climate

Dascher, Kristof - 2013

Global emissions of carbon dioxide need to fall lest climate change will accelerate. Any effective climate policy must raise the price of carbon consumption. From an urban perspective, one desirable effect of a carbon tax would be to induce households to move closer to where they work. This...

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