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Thermoelectric power plants depend on cooling water drawn from water bodies. Low river run-off and/or high water temperatures limit a plant's production capacity. This problem may intensify with climate change. To what extent do such capacity reductions affect electricity spot markets? Who bears...
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Relying on a recent survey of more than 3300 participants from China, Germany and the US, this paper empirically … costs across countries. The ranking of the main principles for burden-sharing is identical in China, Germany and the US …
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-fuel vehicles and building energy retrofits. It makes use of data from two dedicated Germany-wide surveys, one of car buyers and the … identified, and it is examined to what extent environmental aspects influence consumer choice behavior in Germany. The doctoral … (Chapters 3 and 4). Finally, it attempts to explain the persistent low retrofit rate in Germany and makes suggestions on how to …
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The aim of this paper is to describe and discuss the weak and strong sustainability approach of assessing climate change and to show reasonable applications, weaknesses, possible improvements and linkages of both approaches. Main features of "weak" and "strong" sustainability approaches are...
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efficient public adaptation. Based on this framework, we illustrate how Germany's response to major flood disasters reflects the …
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and 2050 when the biochar is incorporated into agricultural soils in Germany and when the by-products from biochar … potential in Germany in the range of 2.8-10.2 million tonnes of carbon-dioxide equivalents by 2030 and 2.9-10.6 million tonnes …
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measurement, is thus crucial to avoid inadequate adaptation. The regulation in Germany discourages flexible adaptation to extreme …
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