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The climate change impacts on sea level rise and coastal disasters, and the possible adaptation responses have been studied using very different approaches, such as very detailed site-specific engineering studies and global macroeconomic assessments of coastal zones vulnerability. This paper...
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Climate change impacts on human life have well defined and different origins, nevertheless in the determination of their final effects, especially those involving social-economic responses, interactions among impacts are likely to play an important role. This paper is one of the first attempts...
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The economy-wide implications of sea level rise in 2050 are estimated using a static computable general equilibrium model. Overall, general equilibrium effects increase the costs of sea level rise, but not necessarily in every sector or region. In the absence of coastal protection, economies...
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events around the world, calling for climate action. I joined the Science Stands contingent at the People’s Climate March … Uni9ted States. There was also a range of other events in the United States and around the world. Reflecting upon the …’s Climate March in New York was a great moment to ‘show the world how big [the climate justice movement had] gotten.’ …
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This paper reviews the connection and impacts of flooding related to climate change in Southern Ontario. The cased study used was the City of Hamilton and the $20 billion portfolios of assets managed by the City of Hamilton’s Public Works Department. The process involved the development of a...
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this work is to assess tangible damage of 2020 flood in the Tuti Island, Sudan. The study employed both quantitative and … photography; both types of data play significant role to assess economic and non-economic losses of 2020 flood in the Island. The … may provide some insights in the potential magnitude of flood events and can improve the development of vulnerability …
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