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sizeable and should motivate for action in terms of both mitigation and consideration and funding of potential adaptation …
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This paper assesses the role of the public sector in adaptation to climate change. We first offer a definition and … categorisation of climate change adaptation. We then consider the primary economic principles that can guide the assignment of … adaptation tasks to either the private or the public sector, as well as those guiding assignment within the public sector itself …
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Climate change is now affecting agriculture and food production in every country of the world. Here the authors present the IMPACT model results on yield, production, and net trade of major crops in China, and on daily calorie availability as an overall indicator of food security under climate...
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This paper empirically analyzes the determinants of individual tourism-related adaptation to climate change, i.e. the …-related adaptation to climate change in the amount of more than 22% of the respondents. Our micro-econometric analysis with binary probit … adaptation. The estimation results suggest no single significant effect of a high educational level or a high level of …
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damage expectations for the future. The latter effect can be interpreted as a 'climate adaptation signal' in the flood …
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We study adaptation to climate change in a federalist setting. To protect themselves against an increase in flood risk …, regional governments choose among adaptation measures that vary with respect to their costs, the level of protection they offer … response to specific proposals. If it has to deduce the vulnerability of regions by their actions, the resulting adaptation …
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grouped in two categories: mitigation and adaptation. Developed countries that are better prepared to cope with climate change … should focus mainly on adaptation to cope with the consequences of climate change. This is not a recommendation that such …
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inequalities. This is likely to trigger an adaptation, the scope and mechanisms of which are hard to predict, and will undoubtedly …
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mitigation and adaptation, carbon and solar geoengineering span the universe of possible climate policies. Their wildly different …
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This paper analyzes the impacts of the modified needs for space heating and cooling due to global warming on the quantities of energy used for space conditioning and overall. It thereby estimates direct and total rebound effects, the latter including changes in consumption and production...
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