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Global warming is the most significant threat to ecosystems and people’s health and living standards, especially in small island states in the Caribbean and elsewhere. This paper contributes to the debate by analyzing different options to scale up climate change mitigation and adaptation. In...
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This policy brief argues in favor of a new urban model that harnesses the power that cities have to curb global warming. Such a model tackles fundamental management challenges in the energy, building and transport sectors to promote the growth of diverse and compact cities. Such a model is...
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We provide ex-post empirical analysis of the effects of climate policies on carbon dioxide emissions at the aggregate national level. Our results are based on a comprehensive database of 121 countries. As climate policies we examine carbon taxes and emissions trading systems (ETS), as well as...
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While the world's attention is on dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change remains a greater existential … threat to vulnerable countries that are highly dependent on a weather-sensitive sector like tourism. Using a novel … multidimensional index, this study investigates the long-term impact of climate change vulnerability on international tourism in a …
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In Croatia, tourism is one of the most important economic activities, accounting for 2.1% of total tourist flows in the … European Union and 18% of the total Croatian gross domestic product. Economic development and tourism flows are influenced by … and maximize the positive effects. The objective of the current study is to empirically research the role of tourism in …
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tourism development. In order to research the impact of natural resources on tourism activity, on the one hand, and the … influences of tourism on the environment, on the other hand, statistical and mathematical methods of analysis and forecast were … radiography has been made of these influences, for significant indicators of the natural environment and of tourism activity, with …
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As tourism is becoming one of the most important sectors of the world economy, the number of small islands trying to …
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In this paper, we investigate tourism-related policy approaches that WTO member countries adopted in the early weeks of … tourism scenarios, underlining both the demand and supply side effects of the crisis. By compiling and organising information … analyse tourism-related policies for 59 WTO Members across all continents. Our findings confirm that: (i) almost 90% of the …
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The dynamic development of the sharing economy is clearly seen in particular, in the area of tourism in large cities … economy in tourism on city sustainability from the perspective of the Agenda 2030 goals. The main objective of the paper was … that sharing economy in tourism has an impact on the implementation of seven of them, but the direction of the impact is …
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