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Climate change, whether through increased temperatures or sea-level rise, is likely to affect the spatial and temporal … factors, relatively few studies have tackled the impact of climate change on tourism. In particular there are few quantitative … studies on the effect that climate change will have on tourism. The aim of this thesis is to fill the research gap and so …
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Most studies that compare price and quantity controls for greenhouse gas emissions under uncertainty find that price mechanisms perform substantially better. In these studies, the benefits from reducing emissions are proportional to the level of reductions, and such linear benefits strongly...
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Unchecked anthropogenic climate change has the potential to destroy human lives and wealth on an unprecedented scale … by climate change.The widespread adoption of environmentally friendly consumer products can reduce the impacts of climate … climate change abatement policies. I build a model that can incorporate more realistic ranges of uncertainty for both the …
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Wechselwirkungen zwischen zunehmender wirtschaftlicher Integration und national bzw. supranational bestimmter Umweltpolitik. Die Arbeit … trägt die modelltheoretischen Bausteine zusammen, mit denen Umweltpolitik in offenen Volkswirtschaftn unter Effizienz …-und Verteilungsapekten analysiert werden kann, im dritten Teil dienen diese einer normativen und positiven Analyse der Umweltpolitik in der …
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that a 1°C temperature increase across all countries will cause a decrease of 3.8% in world GDP. This prediction is robust …
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We analyze the effects of EU adoption of a Sky Trust (Barnes and Breslow 2003) on the income distribution of Hungary, a lower-middle income EU member. We use plausible parameters for an EU carbon charge and revenue recycling system, input-output data to track the effect of a carbon charge on...
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Today, climate change is among the most hotly-debated topics worldwide. The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), one of … what China should do to make full use of the CDM to promote sustainable development and meet the challenge of climate … in dealing with climate change beyond 2012 is analysed. Based on this analysis, the thesis comes to a conclusion that the …
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Cap-and-trade programs for air emissions have become the widely accepted, preferred approach to cost-effective pollution reduction. One of the important design questions in a trading program is how to initially distribute the emissions allowances. Under the Acid Rain program created by Title IV...
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The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is an effort by nine Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states to develop a regional, mandatory, market-based cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity sector. The initiative is expected to lead to an increase in the...
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Impacts from climate change already pose major challenges for organizations and industrial systems, and vulnerabilities … Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggest that climate change related vulnerabilities of organizations and industries … weather, rather than to gradual climate change impacts. Organization researchers and managers, however, have not yet …
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