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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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The impact of flooding on the value of residential property in the UK

Lamond, Jessica Elizabeth - 2008

the current paradigms for inclusion of insurance into flood modelling. A wide-ranging review of data sources, including … discussion with industry experts, has identified the requirement to generate primary data on the availability and cost of flood … flood modelling and incorporates ideas from the wider house price analysis literature. Data collected via a questionnaire …

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Klimaschutz und Ernährungssicherheit : ein ordnungspolitischer Ansatz

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

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Product Carbon Footprinting in the Tourism Industry

Schmidt, Alexander - 2010

Since about 40 percent of the overall emissions are caused by consumers and already 81 percent of all consumers would prefer low carbon products if they had the choice, it would be a desirable goal to increase the demand for climate friendly products in addition to regulatory requirements or...

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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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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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Internalizing the carbon externality : greenhouse gas mitigation’s financial impact on electric utilities and their customers

Groat, Charles G. (contributor) - 2010

Social, political, and economic trends suggest that the United States may soonjoin other United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)countries in drafting substantive, national climate change policy. After providing a briefoverview of past and present climate action taken both...

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The Income-Temperature Relationship in a Cross-Section of Countries and its Implications for Predicting the Effects of Global Warming.

Horowitz, John K. - 2009

Hotter countries are poorer on average. This paper attempts to separate the historical and contemporaneous components of this income-temperature relationship. Following ideas by Acemoglu et al. (Am Econ Rev 91(5):1369-1401, 2001), we use colonial mortality data to account for the historical role...

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Economics and climate applications: exploring the frontier.

Rubas, Debra J.; Hill, Harvey S.J.; Mjelde, James W. - 2006

The economics of information is a broad field covering all aspects of information including decision making. We briefly describe 4 methods used to model the decision-making process. This is not an exhaustive list of the methods used to value information, nor are differences between the methods...

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Land-use change and carbon sinks: Econometric estimation of the carbon sequestration supply function.

Lubowski, Ruben N.; Plantinga, Andrew J.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2006

If the United States chooses to implement a greenhouse gas reduction program, it would be necessary to decide whether to include carbon sequestration policies - - -such as those that promote forestation and discourage deforestation - - -as part of the domestic portfolio of compliance activities....

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