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Die Rückgewinnung von Feuchtgebieten als eine Lösung für aktuelle Umweltprobleme : Hemmnisse und Möglichkeiten

Hofmeister, Friderike - 2006

% of the pristine extent despite their relevance.For parts of the world with high density settlements as Germany for the …

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Essays on the optimal policy response to climate change

Wiseman, Thomas E. (contributor) - 2011

Unchecked anthropogenic climate change has the potential to destroy human lives and wealth on an unprecedented scale. This dissertation analyzes from an economic perspective various public policy options to correct the market failures caused by climate change.The widespread adoption of...

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Tourism, Climate Change and the Coastal Zone

Hamilton, Jacqueline Margaret - 2005

Klimawandel, ob durch steigende Temperaturen oder den Anstieg des Meeresspiegels, wird das räumliche und zeitliche … Tourismus, Klima, Küste und Klimawandel. Der Fokus von Kapitel 3 ist die Rolle von Klimainformationen im touristischen … Nachfrage von und nach allen Ländern der Welt modelliert wird. In Kapitel 7 wird das Hamburg Tourismus Modell (HTM), ein …

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Generation Adjusted Discounting in Long-term Decision-making

Bayer, Stefan - 2000

Wir analysieren die Vorgehensweise bei der Diskontierung langfristiger Projekte. Unsere Untersuchungen zur reinen … Hilfe des GAD ermittelt werden, liegen deutlich über denen der herkömmlichen Vorgehensweise. Für den Klimaschutz bedeutet … formulation of an adjusted OLG-discounting method (GAD) of consumption units, taking into consideration intra- and …

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Anticipating Vulnerability to Climate Change in Dryland Pastoral Systems: Using Dynamic Systems Models for the Kalahari

Dougill, Andrew J.; Fraser, Evan D.G.; Reed, Mark - 2010

"It is vitally important to identify agroecosystems that may cease functioning because of changing climate or land degradation. However, identifying such systems is confounded on both conceptual and methodological grounds, especially in systems that are moving toward thresholds, a common trait...

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Theoretical aspects of long-term evaluation in environmental economics

Traeger, Christian - 2006

economics, decision theory, the economics of sustainability and cost benefit analysis. The thesis is structured in three parts …

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Differences between Decision and Experienced Utility: An Investigation using the Choice Experiment method

Tinch, Dugald; Colombo, Sergio; Hanley, Nick - 2010

Recent work by Kahneman and others has led to a new focus in economics on a wellbeing-based approach to utility. This suggests that ‘experienced utility’ is an alternative and more appropriate basis for the measurement of economic value compared with ‘decision utility’. In this paper, we...

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Klimaschutz und Ernährungssicherheit : ein ordnungspolitischer Ansatz

Presse, André; Häußner, Ludwig Paul; Köke, Sonja - 2009

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Sequential Search With Ordinal Ranks and Cardinal Values: An Infinite Discounted Secretary Problem

Palley, Asa Benjamin - 2009

We consider an extension of the classical secretary problem where a decision maker observes only the relative ranks of a sequence of up to N applicants, whose true values are i.i.d. U[0,1] random variables. Applicants arrive according to a homogeneous Poisson Process, and the decision maker...

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Decision analysis and risk management : application to climate change and risk detection

2011

We have analyzed the application of decision analysis and risk management tools to solve practical problems associated with Climate Change and Risk Detection in the financial services industry. Geoengineering, which is described as an intentional modification of earth’s environment to mitigate...

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