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A Global Migration Framework Under Water : How Can the International Community Protect Climate Refugees?

Sussman, Caitlan M. - 2023

Climate disaster events are expected to displace at least 1.2 billion people by 2050. However, “climate refugees,” or individuals displaced in the context of disasters and climate change, lack international legal recognition and protection. In 2020, an international tribunal acknowledged in...

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Reclaiming the Right to Food as a Normative Response to the Global Food Crisis

Narula, Smita - 2015

The number of hungry in the world has crossed the one billion mark, a dubious milestone that has been attributed in … world. Ironically, a great majority are involved in food production as small-scale independent food producers or … agricultural laborers. These facts and figures signal a definitive blow to efforts to reduce global hunger and lift the world …

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The Cancún Climate Conference

Burleson, Elizabeth; Romano, Cesare P.R - 2011

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The impacts of COVID-19 on GDP, food prices, and food security

Beckman, Jayson; Baquedano, Felix; Countryman, Amanda - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 1 (2021) 1, pp. 1-17

COVID-19 has led to a wealth of research examining possible impacts; however, potential impacts on food security have received much less attention. We use a computable general equilibrium model to simulate the potential impacts of COVID-19 using observed changes from 2020 (September) in...

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Inappropriate Technology : Evidence from Global Agriculture

Moscona, Jacob; Sastry, Karthik - 2021

elsewhere. This paper studies how environmental differences between frontier innovators and the rest of the world shape the … world in which technology were equally productive in all contexts. We use our framework to study how historical and …

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Stimulant or depressant? : resource-related income shocks and conflict

Gehring, Kai; Langlotz, Sarah; Kienberger, Stefan - 2018

We provide new evidence about the mechanisms linking resource-related income shocks to conflict. To do so, we combine temporal variation in international drug prices with new data on spatial variation in opium suitability to examine the effect of opium profitability on conflict in Afghanistan....

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Maispreisverhalten - Maispreistransmission während des Preisbooms an den Terminmärkten

Schmitz, Jochen; Ledebur, Oliver von - 2009

Seit dem Jahr 2000 haben vielfältige Faktoren die Agrarmärkte beeinflusst. Darunter sind wiederholte Angebotsknappheiten und die globale Nachfrageentwicklung zu nennen, welche den beobachteten Preisanstieg begünstigten. Angesichts der zunehmenden Interdependenz der Märkte stellt sich die...

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Foreign aid, urbanization and green cities

Li, Jun - 2013

Rapid urbanization, and particularly the associated problems of urban poverty, unsustainable development and environmental degradation, pose an enormous challenge to many developing countries. In the last decade more foreign aid has been diverted to urbanization and green city development. This...

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Biofuels technology: A look forward

Stafford, William; Lotter, Adrian; Brent, Alan; von … - 2017

This paper assesses biofuels technology readiness and provides foresight to biofuels development in Southern Africa. Efficient conversion pathways, coupled with biomass from waste or high-yielding energy crops, reduces both the costs of biofuels production and the environmental impacts....

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Sustainable development in the context of hard water treatment

Klosok-Bazan, Iwona; Witsanko-Sniezek, Aneta - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 17 (2017) 4, pp. 1135-1145

The objective of this paper was determination and measurement of the effect on the environment that application of central softening of water from the Grotowice intake can have. In order to carry out the said analyses, two levels of water softening were considered, i.e. up to hardness at the...

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