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This article clarifies and quantifies the causal impact of climate change vulnerability on child labour incidence and … intensity. For this purpose, we create an index of vulnerability to climate change, composed of biophysical vulnerability and … that climate vulnerability negatively affects child labour incidence and intensity, while has no significant impact on …
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assistance needed between the districts in the coastal zone of The Gambia. The study employed the Livelihood Vulnerability Index … (LVI) in the estimation of household vulnerability to Climate Change (CC) and its variability based on their: Socio … vulnerability, namely: Exposure; Sensitivity and; Adaptive Capacity. The primary data used is based on a survey of 355 household …
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We use conjoint choice questions to ask public health and climate change experts, contacted at professional meetings in 2003 and 2004, which of two hypothetical countries, A or B, they deem to have the higher adaptive capacity to certain effects of climate change on human health. These...
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The impact of climate change on agriculture and poor groups' livelihoods are one of the greatest potential threats to development and a key challenge in climate change agenda. The North Africa region is particularly vulnerable to climate change due to geographic and ecological features. The...
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, this paper presents and tests an approach to estimating the effects of epidemic outbreaks on health vulnerability. The … online platform, the paper finds that climate has nonnegligible effects on health vulnerability. The evidence found and the … vulnerability index constructed can be used to analyze the main determinants of vulnerability in order to address policy concerns. …
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This paper investigates the vulnerability of households to climatic disasters in the low-lying atoll nation of Tuvalu …
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understanding and assessing the vulnerability of these areas with regards to continuing trends of environmental and social change … evaluation of vulnerability to these changes in Aegean cost side of Turkey; Izmir - Aydýn - Muðla Provinces. Assessment of … vulnerability is based on the definition of IPCC that identify the vulnerability as a function of exposure, sensitivity and adaptive …
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This paper analyzes gender differences in vulnerability and resilience to shocks, including climate change and climate … variability, for Peru, Brazil and Mexico, which together account for more than half the population in Latin America. Vulnerability …
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This paper analyzes gender and ethnic differences in vulnerability and resilience to external shocks and stresses in … Mexico. Vulnerability and resilience are measured by a combination of the level of household incomes per capita and the … explanatory factors of vulnerability whereas education levels, dependency ratios and the age of the head of household are very …
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