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, socioeconomic, environmental and urban planning data. The model is applied to explore scenarios of future development in at the … and on the exploration of future development scenarios. The calibration of the model is based on an automatic calibration … to the observed data is evaluated. The model is then used to explore two different scenarios of urban development. The …
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answer these questions, different scenarios have been simulated including all 3000 municipalities in Switzerland using the … time. The first prototype of FaLC is already in operation and ready to create future scenarios. The implemented case study … for Switzerland focusses basically on three scenarios: - Effects of road network modification - Effects of company taxes …
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-economic scenarios. The GCM projections show consistent strong warming over the subcontinent, but disagree with respect to future … increases in the future under all but the most optimistic development scenarios, and is exacerbated by climate change …
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This paper has a twofold objective: First, to estimate the changes in landings value by 2030 for two Mexican coastal fisheries, specifically shrimp and sardine fisheries, as a consequence of climate change; and second, to discuss the implications of such impacts for food security. A dynamic panel...
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US shale gas production is generally expected to continue its fast rise. However, a cautious evaluation is needed. Shale gas resource estimates are potentially overoptimistic and it is uncertain to which extent they can be produced economically. Moreover, the adverse environmental effects of...
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quantify future global demand for environmental goods and services based on alternative economic scenarios. The method places a …
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Die weltweiten Ausgaben für Umweltschutzgüter und Investitionen in erneuerbare Energien beliefen sich im Jahr 2004 auf über 580 Milliarden US-Dollar - konservativ gerechnet. Aufgrund des langfristigen Wachstums der Weltwirtschaft und zunehmender ökologischer Herausforderungen werden die...
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change scenarios. GCM output cannot, however, be widely or directly used in many impact assessments because of their … two general categories: model-based and empirical. Two examples of empirical downscaling are presented. First, scenarios …/longitude. Second, scenarios at the river-basin scale for study regions in Spain and Italy, based on changes in atmospheric circulation …
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demonstrates that more extreme stress scenarios need to be employed in order to match the inference from simple value … policymakers seem to be aware of these issues, judging by the severity of some recent stress scenarios. …
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