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Evolution of agricultural activities in the coastal areas of Romania: Case study Tulcea county

Rodino, Steliana - 2019

Coastal areas are commonly defined as the interface or transition areas between land and sea, including large inland lakes. Coastal areas are diverse in function and form, dynamic and do not lend themselves well to definition by strict spatial boundaries. Unlike watersheds, there are no exact...

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Klimaveränderungen und deren Einfluss auf Stromerzeugungskosten

Newiadomsky, Charlotte; Seeliger, Andreas - 2020

Seit mehreren Jahrzehnten beschäftigen sich Wissenschaftler mit Klimaprognosen und den möglichen Auswirkungen des Klimawandels. In den letzten Jahren wurde dieses Thema auch in der breiten Bevölkerung durch vermehrte Zeitungsartikel, z.B. zu Problemen der Wasserversorgung in Dürreperioden...

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Flood risk management in Spatial Planning of Estonian Coastal regions

Looring, Merle - 2013

including flood risk policies in the spatial planning cannot be overstated. While development strategies will be informed by … practicable steps to ensure the prior identification of any areas at risk of flooding and flood zones in order to effectively …) aimed to decrease risk by decreasing potential damage. Coastal flood risk is defined as a product of probability of event …

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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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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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Impact Of Technological Innovations For Coffee Production In Adverse Weather Conditions

Bliska, Flavia Maria de Mello; Turco, Patricia Helena … - 2013

A major concern of the Brazilian coffee growers is closely related to the quantitative and qualitative impacts on the coffee sector as a result of possible climate changes, particularly regarding the production of Arabica coffee varieties, which have better beverage quality. This is because low...

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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

Different countries of the world are affected differently by the adverse impacts of anthropogenic climate change. For a large country consisting of several regions with different geographical conditions, the direct geographical impacts of climate change may differ significantly. Given the...

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Returns on investments in new ski lifts: The importance of weather conditions and elevation

Falk, Martin - 2015

This paper investigates the factors that influence the change in passenger ski-lift transports between a normal winter and an anomalously mild winter based on individual lift and aggregate ski-area data. Special focus is placed on the return on investments in new ski lifts. Using endogenous...

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