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Does green infrastructure work? : precipitation, protected areas, Floods and Landslides

Robalino, Juan David; Mullan, Katrina; Piaggio, Matías; … - 2023

We evaluate whether floods and landslides are more likely when rain falls inside versus outside protected areas (PAs … floods and landslides is affected by whether rain falls inside or outside PAs. We use a two-way fixed effect panel data model … find that shifts in precipitation towards PAs reduce floods significantly. These results were highly robust. We also find …

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Does green infrastructure work? : precipitation, protected areas, floods and landslides

Robalino, Juan David; Mullan, Katrina; Piaggio, Matías; … - In: Economics of disasters and climate change 7 (2023) 3, pp. 457-482

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Land-Use Threats and Protected Areas: A Scenario-Based, Landscape Level Approach

Wilson, Tamara S.; Sleeter, Benjamin M.; Sleeter, Rachel R. - In: Land 3 (2014) 2, pp. 362-389

Anthropogenic land use will likely present a greater challenge to biodiversity than climate change this century in the Pacific Northwest, USA. Even if species are equipped with the adaptive capacity to migrate in the face of a changing climate, they will likely encounter a human-dominated...

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Integrating Dendrochronology, Climate and Satellite Remote Sensing to Better Understand Savanna Landscape Dynamics in the Okavango Delta, Botswana

Southworth, Jane; Rigg, Lesley; Gibbes, Cerian; Waylen, … - In: Land 2 (2013) 4, pp. 637-655

related to the regional patterns of precipitation, the principle driver of plant growth in the area. The approach is … temporally and spatially multiscalar and examines the relationships between vegetation cover, type and amount, and precipitation …-50 years. These results corroborate the water-limited nature of the region and the dominance of precipitation in controlling …

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Measurement of Economic Welfare Risk and Resilience of the Philippine Regions

Yonson, Rio; Noy, Ilan - 2018

Using an economic model to assess welfare risk and resilience to disasters, this paper systematically tackles the … questions: 1) How much asset and welfare risks does each region in the Philippines face from riverine flood disasters? 2) How … resilient is each region to riverine flood disasters? and 3) What are the available interventions per region to strengthen …

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Measurement of economic welfare risk and resilience of the Philippine regions

Yonson, Rio; Noy, Ilan - 2018

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The Public Trust Doctrine Fifty Years after Sax and Some Thoughts on its Future

Blumm, Michael C. - 2020

The public trust doctrine was resurrected by Professor Joe Sax in a famous article a half-century ago. Sax explored the doctrine's history and maintained that it had contemporary significance at the time of the dawn of the modern environmental movement in 1970. Sax thought that the historic use...

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To Stand as a Tripod : The Coalition between Financial Econometrics and the RE-NRE Duality

Xu, Jin - 2017

The 2008 financial crisis has led to the breakdown of the new synthesis consensus in the mainstream economic theories. Rational expectations (RE) and non-rational expectations (NRE) have respectively explained the policy irrelevance of and the behavior departure from standard economic theories....

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Current Problems of Water Supply and Usage in Central Asia, Tian Shan Basin

Lemenkova, Polina - 2019

The paper focuses on analysis of Central Asian hydro- energetic system and water usage in Tian Shan region. Tian Shan system is an important water resource in Central Asia: river waters are intensely taken for hydropower energy, urban systems, irrigation. But geopolitics in Tian Shan is...

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Environmental Law at 50 : A Cutting-Edge Journal Examining the Central Issues of Our Time

Blumm, Michael C. - 2020

This paper, a celebratory essay marking the 50th anniversary of the first issue of Environmental Law, the nation's oldest and most comprehensive law student-edited law review, discusses the background of the founding of the journal in 1970 and surveys the many symposia and leading articles it...

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