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Resilient coastal cities for enhancing tourism economy: Integrated planning approaches

Sandhu, Sonia Chand; Kelkar, Vedanti; Sankaran, Vaideeswaran - 2019

The objective of this paper is to recommend planning options for improving the resilience, competitiveness, and sustainability of coastal cities. Insights for an improved understanding of dynamic coastal ecosystems and tourism impacts are shared. These are based on project level solutions and...

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Coalition Formation with Border Carbon Adjustment

Schopf, Mark - 2020

The present paper analyzes the impact of a climate coalition's border carbon adjustment on emissions from commodity production, welfare and the coalition size. The coalition implements border carbon adjustment to reduce carbon leakage and to improve its terms of trade, while the fringe abstains...

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Taking up the climate change challenge: A new perspective on central banking

D'Orazio, Paola; Popoyan, Lilit - 2020

The awareness about climate-related financial risks is gaining momentum both in the policy and academic debates. The role of countries' institutional dimension and central bank governance structures in the adoption of green prudential regulation is, however, overlooked in the current discussion....

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Comprehension, mapping and reporting of climate-related risks among listed firms in Sweden

Andersson, Fredrik N. G.; Arvidsson, Susanne - 2021

We study the comprehension, mapping, and reporting of climate-related risks among firms listed on the NasdaqOMX stock … that firms are likely to engage in some form of mapping and reporting of climate-related risks. However, their …' comprehension of what constitutes a climate-risk, how to map such risks and how to report them. The mapping and reporting of climate …

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Formation of climate coalitions and preferential free trade - The case for participation linkage

Kuhn, Thomas; Pestow, Radomir; Zenker, Anja - 2022

We study the endogenous formation of climate coalitions linked to a preferential free trade arrangement. In a multi-stage strategic trade and participation game, coalition and fringe countries dispose of a discriminatory tariff on dirty imports as well as emission permits imposed on domestic...

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General equilibrium effects of public adaptation in agriculture in LDCs: Evidence from Ethiopia

Yalew, Amsalu W.; Hirte, Georg; Lotze-Campen, Hermann; … - 2017

Ethiopia is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. This is because its important economic sector, agriculture, is virtually rain-fed. The role of the sector in the current economic structure and the potency of the anticipated biophysical impacts of climate change necessitates...

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Building Climate Coalitions on Preferential Free Trade Agreements

Kuhn, Thomas; Pestow, Radomir; Zenker, Anja - 2017

In this paper, we discuss the endogenous formation of climate coalitions in the tradition of the issue-linkage literature. In particular, we propose a preferential free trade agreement on which a climate coalition should be built. The basic idea is that the benefits of free trade provide strong...

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Should we sustain? And if so, sustain what? Consumption or the quality of life?

Llavador, Humberto; Roemer, John E.; Silvestre, Joaquim - 2012

Sustainability has been largely replaced by discounted utilitarianism in contemporary climate-change economics. Our approach rejuvenates sustainability by expanding the conception of the quality of life, along the lines of the UN Human Development Reports, to include not only consumption, but...

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A comparative study of selected Asian countries on carbon emissions with respect to different trade and climate changes mitigation policy scenarios

Truong, Truong Phuoc - 2010

Trade, economic development, and climate change issues are closely linked and this has significant implications for the design of climate change policies especially for developing countries. Developing countries regard the objective of economic development and growth as being as important as the...

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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...

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