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Globally, food systems have become heavily industrialized and are currently threatening both environmental sustainability and human health. Feeding a growing world while remaining within safe social-ecological planetary boundaries, as dictated by the UN Social Development Goals and the Paris...
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Empirical studies of the economic effects of climate change (CC) largely rely on climate anomalies for causal identification purposes. Slow and permanent changes in climate-driven geographical conditions, i.e. CC as defined by the IPCC (2013), have been studied relatively less, especially in...
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One of the most difficult challenges facing public land managers today is how to address climate change in a meaningful way when making decisions affecting public lands. This problem is largely the product of the high levels of uncertainty surrounding climate change and the potential...
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The precautionary principle has been invoked to justify a policy of aggressive greenhouse gas (GHG) emission controls that would go beyond "no regrets" actions to reduce global warming. However, this justification is based upon selectively applying the principle to the potential public health...
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We challenge the narrative that climate change transition risk is not being priced into sovereign bond markets. Climate … change transition risk, as measured by carbon dioxide emissions, natural resources rents and renewable energy consumption … developing markets from 2000-2019, we show countries with lower carbon emissions incur a lower risk premium on sovereign …
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used in risk assessments to estimate extent of and damages from flooding and erosion. Further, such flood risk models can … then include the effects of ecosystems, such as mangroves, to model the effects on risk of conservation and restoration …
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ecosystems play in reducing risk to coastal communities now and with future sealevel rise. These analyses were used to inform … goal is to quantify the role that coastal habitat plays in reducing risk to people and shoreline under current conditions … more than double, and the total population would nearly triple in The Bahamas. Similarly, the population living along high-risk …
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