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This article clarifies and quantifies the causal impact of climate change vulnerability on child labour incidence and … intensity. For this purpose, we create an index of vulnerability to climate change, composed of biophysical vulnerability and … that climate vulnerability negatively affects child labour incidence and intensity, while has no significant impact on …
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map and analyze the vulnerability to climate change in different districts of four south Indian states: Andhra Pradesh …, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. We have taken five sources of vulnerability indicators: socio-demographic, climatic …, agricultural, occupational and common property resources vulnerabilities to compute the composite vulnerability index. The …
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Land Use (WASCAL) tackles this vulnerability by investigating the interface of climate and rural socia-ecological systems …
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The objective of this article is to analyze the effect of the political empowerment of women on vulnerability to …, participation of women in civil society and participation of women in political debates) reduce vulnerability to climate change. ii … vulnerability to climate change is affected by women's political empowerment. The findings are robust to alternative estimation …
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The paper traces the evolution the concept of socioeconomic vulnerability to climate change has followed in the … academic and scientific debate. The recent recognition of vulnerability as a social construction has shifted the focus of the …
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This paper provides an overview of the latest developments in methodologies for assessing the vulnerability of coastal … zones to climate change at regional and local scales. The focus of vulnerability assessment in coastal zones used to be on … variables that play a part in determining coastal vulnerability, as well as non-climatic developments. The paper presents a …
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examines the regional differences in the vulnerability of Mediterranean coastal zones from existing studies and projections for …
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Contrary to current notions about water abundance in Lebanon, the country is facing serious problems of unavailability, both in quantity and quality, geographical and sectoral. Even though this is due to several existing human-related aspects, i.e. management, ill-finance, non-integration and...
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