We estimate a Ricardian model of Western European agricultural land values using farm-level data. We model the effect of temperature on land values using a flexible specification of daily mean temperature to test if there are temperature threshold effects. Results indicate that there are no...

The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has played an important role in the recognition of a customary international law obligation for States to conduct an environmental assessment (EA) when a proposed activity is likely to have a transboundary impact. It is unclear, at...

We can better understand the cost that climate change may impose on underdeveloped countries in the future by examining the cost imposed by climate change on developed countries in the past. Using Europe of the 19th century as a model since it resembled modern day under developed areas, I...

Until now, most of the growing climate legal litigations mainly concern environmental associations or victims against energy of energy-users firms or States. However, in a near future, because of exacerbating sudden floods linked to climate change, future litigations could (will) concern...

Hydropower is very important for electricity supply security in the European inter- connexion as well as for the economy of regions (primarily peripheral) that possess water resources. Its future may however be jeopardized by several factors: climate change, the development of new renewable...

The climate is changing; and the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region is vulnerable to the consequences. Many of the region's countries are facing warmer temperatures, a changing hydrology and more extremes, droughts, floods, heat waves, windstorms, and forest fires. Already the frequency and...