widely unknown. Governments try to cope with these risks by investing in mitigation and adaptation measures. Mitigation aims … at a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions whereas adaptation reduces the follow-up costs of climate change. In contrast … to the existing literature, we explicitly model the decision of risk-averse governments on mitigation and adaptation …

-over effects. To attenuate these costs, sector specific adaptation measures are needed, raising the question of the net-benefits of … adaptation at a macroeconomic level. However, despite their importance such assessments of impacts and adaptation at the macro … adaptation measures for the land transport sectors. To reveal both direct and indirect effects of impacts and adaptation a …

continuously. This time adaptation is getting more and more attention to reduce the socio economic vulnerability and risks … associated with the climate change. Adaptation is unavoidable. This paper enumerates the literature review of Adaptation … why adaptation is necessary and its implications in coping the climate change challenges and what progress has been made …

This paper investigates the interrelation between adaptation and climate protection efforts of individuals in a cross …, private adaptation and climate protection activities are determined by different factors and thus cannot be substitutes …. Considering seven climate protection and four adaptation measures, these theoretical predictions are tested empirically using …

In this paper we discuss the scope of the adaptation challenge facing world agriculture in the coming decades. Due to … rising temperatures throughout the tropics, pressures for adaptation will be greatest in some of the poorest parts of the … adaptation in the farm and food sector. In general, we find that existing integrated assessment models are better suited to …

is used to analyze the impact of adaptation assistance from North to South. It is shown that North’s unilateral … assistance to South (thus enhancing South’s adaptation capacity) can facilitate pollution mitigation in both regions, especially …

In diesem Arbeitspapier wird die Rolle des öffentlichen Sektors bei der Anpassung an den Klimawandel behandelt. Zuerst … werden die Möglichkeiten zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel definiert und kategorisiert. Dann werden die volkswirtschaftlichen … Hauptbereiche, in denen der öffentliche Sektor eine Rolle bei der Anpassung an den Klimawandel spielen kann, Folgende sind …