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equilibrium. Similarly, for prudent agents an extra risk in all states of the world induces more precautionary actions in Nash …We study a commons problem under uncertainty, where individual actions affect the risk of a future damage event. We … show that for risk-averse agents, an extra risk on the amount of the damage induces more precautionary actions in Nash …
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Climate has relevant impacts on human health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), climate … in the country in order to measure the impact of climate change on the dengue risk in Brazil, and also examine the public … risk, a comparative case study research will be used, based on the comparison of cities that suffered from specific climate …
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different types of disasters, the effect of changing disaster risk so far has largely been neglected. In this paper we study the … effect of hurricane risk on individual self-reported life satisfaction. In order to do so we combine geo-referenced survey … we construct time-varying indicators of hurricane risk on the zip-code-level for the period of 2010 to 2018, based on …
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Cities, home to more than half of the world's population and important economic hubs, are vulnerable to impacts of … as the most relevant physical risk. Furthermore, more than half of the participants indicate that they are facing social … risks due to climate change with increased risk to already vulnerable populations being the most important one. However, 72 …
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This paper studies the long-term distribution of energy-efficiency outcomes in the German residential sector. To uncover the underlying energy efficiency of buildings, we estimate the causal response of building-level heat energy demand to variability in heating degree days. We examine...
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than might otherwise be justified. In a world of shrinking economic resources for reducing harm to public health and …
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The paper aims to briefly present the main problems regarding the impact of climate change on living organisms (humans, animals, plants), the measures taken so far to solve these problems and the actions that must be taken into account by the European Union and the states members. They propose...
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Global emissions of CO2 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 paper shows...
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third place in the world. The reason selecting Makassar City as a study region is that there is an enough forest in …
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