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Changes in climatic factors and malaria in Uganda

Yawe, Bruno Lule - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

The study examines the relationship between climatic factors and reported malaria cases using data from 12 districts in …

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Voluntary carbon markets : a critical assessment

Meitner, Leonhard - 2024

The looming climate crisis calls for the development of novel forms of response, but so far, climate change action does not meet its ambitions to tackle the issue. Voluntary Carbon Markets (VCMs) are one proposed solution to bridge the gap. However, VCMs are criticized for not providing real...

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Health effects of climate change and mitigating effects of climate policies : evidence from Bangladesh

Eskander, Shaikh; Mahmud, Minhaj Uddin - 2024

This paper explores the mitigating effects of climate policies in addressing climate-induced health adversities. We … first investigate the effect of in utero exposure to rainfall variations on child health outcomes in Bangladesh and find … Fund to identify that some of these rainfall-induced health adversities can be mitigated through climate policies. Our …

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Climate change, cold waves, heat waves, and mortality : evidence from a lower middle-income country

Cuong Viet Nguyen; Nguyen, Manh-Hung; Toan Truong Nguyen - 2022

emigration, and provinces with higher public spending on health. Finally, we estimate economic cost of cold and heat waves using …

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Climate changes affect human capital

Caruso, Germán; De Marcos, Inés; Noy, Ilan - 2023

: direct effects on health, nutrition, and wellbeing, and indirect effects through changes in economic systems, markets, and …

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Study on the impact of climate changes on alive's organisms

Marin, Ancuța - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : trends and …, (pp. 264-272). 2022

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 and workplace injuries

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2024

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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Chapter 21. Energy, the Environment, and Technological Change

Popp, David; Newell, Richard G.; Jaffe, Adam B. - 2010

Within the field of environmental economics, the role of technological change has received much attention. The long-term nature of many environmental problems, such as climate change, makes understanding the evolution of technology an important part of projecting future impacts. Moreover, in...

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Chapter 16. Integrated Economic and Climate Modeling

Nordhaus, William - In: Handbook of computable general equilibrium modeling : …, (pp. 1069-1131). 2013

This survey examines the history and current practice in integrated assessment models (IAMs) of the economics of climate change. It begins with a review of the emerging problem of climate change. The next section provides a brief sketch of the rise of IAMs in the 1970s and beyond. The subsequent...

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Why do we need to strengthen climate adaptations? : scenarios and financial lines of defense

Mongelli, Francesco Paolo; Ceglar, Andrej; Alois … - 2024

Adaptation needs are vast, rising fast and difficult to determine in their entirety, especially with uncertain adverse scenarios due to climate inertia and implementation lags. Adaptation is hindered by a lack of a unified understanding of what it necessitates; the challenge in pointing out its...

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