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the role of trust in fostering adaptation by facilitating collective action, and the need for targeted interventions to … support adaptation and increase resilience in low-trust societies in which collective action may be harder to achieve. …
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We investigate the long-term macroeconomic effects of climate change across 48 U.S. states over the period 1963.2016 using a novel econometric strategy which links deviations of temperature and precipitation (weather) from their long-term moving-average historical norms (climate) to various...
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adaptation in the United States. The analysis produces several new facts. First, the reductions in the impact of extreme heat on … and consumption related to high temperatures, a commonly-used proxy for measuring the consumption of adaptation services … magnitude larger than the private cost of adaptation associated with electricity consumption. …
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in these areas, requiring prompt and effective adaptation to climate induced events –from gradual sea level rise to … of agents’ behaviour, from individual risk perceptions’ modelling to decision-making rules on the adaptation option to be …-assessment agentbased models on climate change adaptation in coastal zones, thus, is here provided to investigate the current state of the …
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, population and the capacity of adaptation. In order to prove this hypothesis, I developed new intermediate tools, opening an …
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This paper reviews the role of Social Protection and Labor in supporting both climate adaptation and mitigation efforts … potential to support adaptation, decarbonization and mitigation is still to be realized. …
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Most empirical studies on private climate change adaptation rely on self-reported intentions which often fail to … gap (IBG) in climate change adaptation, which complicates the deduction of policy recommendations for stimulating … adaptation behavior. Using a large unique longitudinal survey data set from Germany covering more than 5,000 households, our …
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adaptation. Here, we provide a framework for analyzing the multiple interlinkages between climate change and human capital and … adaptation, on human capital across the life cycle. The framework presents two channels through which human capital is affected … of the life cycle. For mitigation and adaptation, we find that while these are overall clearly beneficial, they are also …
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with air conditioning installed on site are less vulnerable to extreme high temperatures, indicating the role of adaptation. …
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This paper identifies individual and regional risk factors for hospitalizations caused by heat within the German population over 65 years of age. Using administrative insurance claims data and a machine-learning-based regression model, we causally estimate heterogeneous heat effects and explore...
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