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Using data covering the universe of injury claims from the nation's largest worker's compensation system (2001-2018), we explore the relationship between temperature and workplace safety and its implications for labor market inequality. Hotter temperature increases workplace injuries...
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of chronic health conditions. In this paper, I examine the temperaturemorbidity relationship in the tropical climate …
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of chronic health conditions. In this paper, I examine the temperaturemorbidity relationship in the tropical climate …
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Observers repeatedly predict that climate change will lead and is already causing massive migration with very large … numbers of people forced to leave their homes in cataclysmic waves of climate refugees. Yet, most of the empirical research on … the contemporary link between climate change and migration fails to find much evidence of this migration. As climate …
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Managing risks from extreme events will be a crucial component of climate change adaptation. In this study, we … to flood risk in Mumbai. In 2005, Mumbai experienced unprecedented flooding, causing direct economic damages estimated at …’ climate scenario could see the likelihood of a 2005-like event more than double. We estimate that total losses (direct plus …
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This study illustrates a methodology to assess economic impacts of climate change at city scale, focusing on sea level …, amongst other loses – deduced, allowing a risk analysis of the effectiveness of coastal flood protections, including risk … changes due to climate change and sea level rise. This methodology is applied in the city of Copenhagen, capital of Denmark …
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impact of weather and the impact of climate. By disentangling the data into different frequencies this paper contributes …
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