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Governments face the daunting task of developing policies and making investment decisions for climate change adaptation in an environment that consist of complex, interlinked systems with manifold uncertainties. Instead of responding to surprises and making decisions on ad hoc basis, a...
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Model uncertainty is inherent in the design of optimal environmental policy. We investigate the consequences in a …
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. What additional economic cost of mitigation measures will this delay imply? At the same time, the uncertainty surrounding … this uncertainty cost? Is there a hedging strategy that decision makers can adopt to cope with delayed action and uncertain … computing the optimal abatement strategy in the presence of uncertainty about a global stabilisation target (which will be …
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This paper looks at the risk dimension of water markets under uncertain water supply. We model market participants …` decisions under uncertainty and evaluate gains from trade under two different market arrangements. These differ in the … confidence that irrigators can place in the water market-clearing processes, and their chances of pursuing tactical responses to …
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introduce relevant dynamic elements to the general problem of decisions under uncertainty. We analyze actions that may have … essential to establish the direction of the bias. We also use Epstein's framework to look at issues such as uncertainty about … cost of restoration and uncertainty about irreversibility. All of the results to this point are for models with just two …
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