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Household vulnerability on the frontline of climate change : the pacific atoll nation of Tuvalu
Taupo, Tauisi; Cuffe, Harold; Noy, Ilan - 2016
This paper investigates the vulnerability of households to climatic disasters in the low-lying atoll nation of Tuvalu …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547889
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Climate-related disasters in Asia and the Pacific
Thomas, Vinod; Albert, Jose Ramon G.; Perez, Rosa T. - 2013
population vulnerability, and increasing climate-related hazards - behind the increased frequency of intense natural disasters … increase in natural disasters and population exposure, represented by population densities. Population vulnerability also … matters, but increasing incomes seem to be associated first with greater and then lesser vulnerability. Finally, there is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781147
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Benefits of Organic Agriculture as a Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Strategy for Developing Countries
Muller, Adrian - 2009
Organic agriculture, as an adaptation strategy to climate change and variability, is a concrete and promising option for rural communities and has additional potential as a mitigation strategy. This article is a short review of this topic. Adaptation and mitigation based on organic agriculture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541897
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Reducing Global Warming and Adapting to Climate Change: The Potential of Organic Agriculture
Muller, Adrian; Olesen, Joergen; Smith, Laurence; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012
retention capacity, and creates more stabile, fertile soils, thus reducing vulnerability to drought, extreme precipitation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645810
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Benefits of Organic Agriculture as a Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Strategy in Developing Countries
Muller, Adrian - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009
Organic agriculture as an adaptation strategy to climate change and variability is a concrete and promising option for adaptation in rural communities. Organic agriculture has additional potential as a mitigation strategy. This text is a short review article on this topic. Adaptation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423948
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Climate Change Vulnerability Mapping for Southeast Asia
Yusuf, Arief Anshory; Francisco, Herminia - Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia … - 2009
adaptive capacity maps following the vulnerability assessment framework of the United Nations’ Inter-governmental Panel on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118514
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Climate change compounding risks in North Africa
Drine, Imed - 2011
measure the possible impact of climate change on agriculture sector. -- climate change ; vulnerability ; North Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009127864
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From stocks to flows - evidence for the climate-migration-nexus
Berlemann, Michael; Haustein, Erik; Steinhardt, Max … - 2021
Slow onset climate change has the potential to cause significant migration flows. Scientists have recently made considerable efforts to quantify these flows based on empirical methods. However, the literature on international migration has failed to come to a clear conclusion as many studies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550033
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Perspectives on climate policies
Andersson, Fredrik N. G. - 2019
The purpose of this article is twofold: First to discuss three misconceptions in the debate on climate policies: i) that de-growth is necessary, ii) that the market economy is part of the problem rather than part of the solution to climate change, and iii) that the only policy tool needed is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012166055
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Perspectives on climate policies
Andersson, Fredrik N. G. - 2019
The purpose of this article is twofold: First to discuss three misconceptions in the debate on climate policies: i) that de-growth is necessary, ii) that the market economy is part of the problem rather than part of the solution to climate change, and iii) that the only policy tool needed is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012163755