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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 …

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Trade, climate policy and carbon leakage : theory and empirical evidence

Aichele, Rahel - 2013

This volume was prepared by Rahel Aichele while she was working at the ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. The chapters investigate how, in a...

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Cities, Climate Change and Multilevel Governance

Corfee-Morlot, Jan; Kamal-Chaoui, Lamia; Donovan, Michael G. - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2009

Cities represent a challenge and an opportunity for climate change policy. As the hubs of economic activity, cities generate the bulk of GHG emissions and are thus important to mitigation strategies. Urban planning will shape future trends and the concentration of population, socio-economic...

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Trade, Climate Policy and Carbon Leakage - Theory and Empirical Evidence

Aichele, Rahel - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …

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Competitiveness and environmental protection: a dirty dilemma

Oliver, Geoffrey; Basak, Rishi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

additional costs on business and affect economic competitiveness. This paper discusses the links between environmental protection … (and government policies and regulations more generally) and competitiveness. It provides a brief discussion on the nature … of competitiveness, presents a Prisoners’ Dilemma model of firm and government strategies that incorporates competition …

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Climate Impacts in Europe - The JRC PESETA II Project

Ciscar, Juan-Carlos; Feyen, Luc; Soria, Antonio; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The objective of the JRC PESETA II project is to gain insights into the sectoral and regional patterns of climate change impacts in Europe by the end of this century. The study uses a large set of climate model runs and impact categories (ten impacts: agriculture, energy, river floods, droughts,...

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Leveraging global climate finance for sustainable forests : opportunities and conditions for successful foreign aid to the forestry sector

Pascual, Unai; Garmendia, Eneko; Phelps, Jacob; Ojea, Elena - 2013

Forest loss and degradation remains a leading environmental problem. The long history of sustainable forest management has often failed to meet expectations - constrained by funding, governance, capacity and competing interests. Initiatives from the climate change policy arena are opening new...

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Achieving the “low carbon, green growth” vision in Korea

Jones, Randall Sidney; Yoo, Byungseo - 2012

Korea, which has had the highest growth rate of greenhouse gas emissions in the OECD area since 1990, adopted an ambitious Green Growth Strategy in 2009. It aims at reducing emissions by 30% by 2020 relative to a “business as usual” scenario, implying a 4% cut from the 2005 level. The...

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Can climate policy enhance sustainability?

Campagnolo, Lorenza; Carraro, Carlo; Davide, Marinella; … - 2013

Implementing an effective climate policy is one of the main challenges for our future. Even though ambitious mitigation targets are necessarily costly, curbing GHG emissions can prevent future irreversible impacts of climate change on human kind and the environment. Climate policy is therefore...

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LDC export diversification, employment generation and the "green economy" : what roles for tourism linkages?

Honeck, Dale - 2012 - Manuscript date: 13 November 2012

"Pro-poor" tourism is arguably one of the best green options for addressing LDC poverty, employment and economic diversification initiatives. Although often neglected as a serious policy option - and consequently most of its potential still remains untapped - tourism is the leading export for at...

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