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High temperatures can have a negative effect on workplace safety for a variety of reasons. Discomfort and reduced concentration caused by heat can lead to workers making mistakes and injuring themselves. Discomfort can also be an incentive for workers to report an injury that they would not have...
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High temperatures can have a negative effect on workplace safety for a variety of reasons. Discomfort and reduced concentration caused by heat can lead to workers making mistakes and injuring themselves. Discomfort can also be an incentive for workers to report an injury that they would not have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015053236
There are local air pollution benefits from pursuing greenhouse gases emissions mitigation policies, which lower the net costs of emission reductions and thereby may strengthen the incentives to participate in a global climate change mitigation agreement. The main purpose of this paper is to...
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mortality rates in order to contribute insight into the potential costs of climate change. Previous research on the health … health benefits of climate change. …
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This paper presents a survey of the empirical literature studying the relationship between health outcomes, temperature … to incorporate human health and adaptation in its framework. I begin by presenting the conceptual and methodological … issues associated with the measurement of the effect of temperature extremes on health, and the role of adaptation in …
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This paper studies the interplay between climate, health, and the economy in a stylized world with four heterogeneous …). We introduce health impacts into a simple integrated assessment model where both the local cooling effect of aerosols as … show how some of the important aspects of the equilibrium, including emission abatement rates, health costs, and economic …
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European Union and the states members. They propose increasing the resilience of health and social systems and emphasize the … need to ensure adequate surveillance and control of climate change impacts on health, such as epidemiological surveillance … unknown health risks, but it will intensify certain interactions between the environment and human health, with more drastic …
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High temperatures can have a negative effect on workplace safety for a variety of reasons. Discomfort and reduced concentration caused by heat can lead to workers making mistakes and injuring themselves. Discomfort can also be an incentive for workers to report an injury that they would not have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015096769
and climate variability. These challenges include how to reduce the incidence of malaria (including the significant … challenge of resistant malaria), dengue, and other vector-borne and water-borne diseases that are likely to experience … and malaria transmitted by vectors like mosquitoes. In the context of growing financial pressure on governments due to …
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Fiscal policy has a strong role to play in the transition to an ecologically sustainable economy. This paper critically discusses the way that green fiscal policy has been analysed in both conventional and post-Keynesian approaches. It then uses a recently developed post-Keynesian ecological...
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