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Ecology and economy in the Arctic. Uncertainty, knowledge and precaution

Aslaksen, Iulie; Glomsrød, Solveig; Myhr, Anne Ingeborg - 2007

Climate change impacts in the Arctic require that complex relationships between the economy, the environment, and the living conditions of indigenous and local people be taken into account. While traditional approaches to economic valuation may not be sufficient to capture these relationships,...

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The effect of drought on health outcomes and health expenditures in rural Vietnam

Lechtenfeld, Tobias; Lohmann, Steffen - 2014

This paper studies the impact of droughts on health outcomes and health expenditures in rural Vietnam. Given the … incidence of drought to health shocks and health-related expenditures from a multiple-wave panel of rural Vietnamese households …. Overall, the results suggest that individuals affected by drought display a deterioration of health conditions and have …

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Strategic behavior in IEAs: When and why countries joined the Kyoto Protocol

Almer, Christian; Winkler, Ralph - 2010

We empirically analyze the formation of international environmental agreements within a political economy framework. We develop a theoretical model of state dependent net benefits of ratification predicting (i) strategic behavior with respect to the timing of ratification and (ii) that...

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Global climate change and the funding of adaptation

Buob, Seraina; Stephan, Gunter - 2008

Mitigation and adaptation are the most important strategies in combating global climate change. It is expected that in a post Kyoto world industrialized countries have to engage in greenhouse gas abatement, and to support developing countries in adapting to climate change. Within the framework...

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Trading off generations: Infinitely-lived agent versus OLG

Schneider, Maik T.; Traeger, Christian; Winkler, Ralph - 2010

The prevailing literature discusses intergenerational trade-offs predominantly in infinitely-lived agent models despite the finite lifetime of individuals. We discuss these trade-offs in a continuous time OLG framework and relate the results to the infinitely-lived agent setting. We identify...

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Climate (change) and conflict: Resolving a puzzle of association and causation

Almer, Christian; Boes, Stefan - 2012

There is an ongoing discussion especially among political scientists and economists whether and how climate variability affects civil conflicts and wars in developing countries. Given the predicted climatic changes, several studies argue that increasing temperatures or decreasing precipitation...

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To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions?

Dagsvik, John K.; Moen, Sigmund H. - 2023

Weather and temperatures vary in ways that are difficult to explain and predict precisely. In this article we review data on temperature variations in the past as well possible reasons for these variations. Subsequently, we review key properties of global climate models and statistical analyses...

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Climate Change and Production Risk in Chinese Aquaculture

Holst, Rainer; Yu, Xiaohua - 2011

Drawing on the method developed by Just and Pope (1978, 1979), this paper separately analyzes the marginal contributions of both regular input factors and climate factors to mean output and to production risk in Chinese inland aquaculture. Furthermore, the net change in output following a 1°C...

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Climate Change, Risk and Grain Production in China

Holst, Rainer; Yu, Xiaohua; Grün, Carola - 2011

This paper employs the production function-based method proposed by Just and Pope (1978, 1979) to explicitly analyze production risk in the context of Chinese grain farming and climate change, and test for potential endogeneity of climate factors in Chinese grain production. Our results indicate...

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Regional Agreements to Address Climate Change: Scope, Promise, Funding, and Impacts

Butzlaff, Iris; Grunewald, Nicole; Klasen, Stephan - 2013

There is a large number of regional agreements concerning Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, often linked to other regional integration agreements. The most successful one in making effort in reducing carbon emissions is the Emission Trading System by the European Union (EU ETS). Apart from this...

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