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Social impacts of climate change in Brazil : a municipal level analysis of the effects of recent and future climate change on income, health and inequality

Andersen, Lykke E.; Román, Soraya; Verner, Dorte - 2010

The paper uses data from 5,507 municipalities in Brazil to estimate the relationships between climate and income as well as climate and health, and then uses the estimated relationships to gauge the effects of past and future climate change on income levels and life expectancy in each of these...

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Mainstreaming the adaptations and reducing the vulnerability of the poor due to climate change

Ranganathan, C. R.; Palanisami, K.; Kakumanu, K. R.; … - 2011

Many rural poor people in developing countries depend on agriculture and are highly influenced by climatic change. Hence, sustainable livelihood approaches are used at both policy and project level to initiate new poverty reduction activities and modify existing activities to improve livelihood...

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Climate Change Cosmopolitanism

Sunstein, Cass R. - 2021

If one nation damages another, what are its obligations? This question can be approached and understood in diverse ways, but it is concretized in debates over the social cost of carbon, which is sometimes described as the linchpin of national climate policy. The social cost of carbon, meant to...

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Climate change and its impacts on vulnerable communities : a case study of Karnataka

Balasubramanian, M; Manjunath, M; Remadevi, O. K.; … - 2019

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Adaptation to climate variability and change in Uganda : are there gender differences across households?

Guloba, Madina - 2014

household. Using a two-wave household panel survey dataset, choice of adaptation strategies employed by female- and male … reveal that gender of the household head matters in adaptation to climate-induced shocks. Specific differences were found …

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Temperature, climate change, and household financial behaviour : evidence from Viet Nam

Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Trong Anh Trinh; Danquah, Michael - 2023

We examine the impact of temperature shocks and climate change on household financial behaviour in Viet Nam. To do so …, we first estimate the effect of temperature on household borrowing and savings using Vietnamese longitudinal data that … matches satellite reanalysis temperature data with household information over the period 2008 to 2016. We find that an …

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Global climate change and the resurgence of tropical disease : an economic approach

Gollin, Douglas; Zimmermann, Christian - 2010

We study the impact of global climate change on the prevalence of tropical diseases using a heterogeneous agent dynamic general equilibrium model. In our framework, households can take actions (e.g., purchasing bednets or other goods) that provide partial protection from disease. However, these...

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Global climate change and the resurgence of tropical disease : an economic approach

Gollin, Douglas; Zimmermann, Christian - 2010

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Climate variability and household welfare in northern Ghana

Nkegbe, Paul Kwame; Kuunibe, Naasegnibe - 2014

investigates the impact of climate variability on household welfare in the area using a three-period panel data from the Ghana … impacts household welfare, agricultural income, and farm revenue, and recommends inter alia households' diversification of …

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Direct and indirect effects of weather experiences on life satisfaction : which role for climate change expectations?

Osberghaus, Daniel; Kühling, Jan - 2014

storms, heavy rain, and floods. Concern about future climate change on the household level has a substantial negative impact …

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