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Increasingly, the debate on transport policy involves the challenge of sustainable development. The concept of sustainable transport is derived from the general term of sustainable development. Sustainable transportation can be considered by examining the sustainability of the transport system...
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Increasingly, the debate on transport policy involves the challenge of sustainable development. The concept of sustainable transport is derived from the general term of sustainable development. Sustainable transportation can be considered by examining the sustainability of the transport system...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149944
Under the basic assumption that national climate change risk and vulnerability are closely linked with a country's resilience to climate change, we analysed how some aspects of culture are related to risk and vulnerability. Individualism/collectivism, religiousness and cultural heterogeneity are...
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Under the basic assumption that national climate change risk and vulnerability are closely linked with a country's resilience to climate change, we analysed how some aspects of culture are related to risk and vulnerability. Individualism/collectivism, religiousness and cultural heterogeneity are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015292403
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by the UN Member States, have been specifically proposed to address some of the main socio-environmental and economic problems affecting developed and developing countries. Based on and expanding the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which...
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This report proposes an index to identify those countries most vulnerable to climate change and to rank them according to their eligibility for funding within the context of the EU Global Climate Change Alliance plus Flagship Initiative (GCCA+). The report is organised as follows. Chapter 1...
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This report proposes an index to identify those countries most vulnerable to climate change and to rank them according to their eligibility for funding within the context of the EU Global Climate Change Alliance plus Flagship Initiative (GCCA+). The report is organised as follows. Chapter 1...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015300398
This report analyses the differential impact of extreme weather events in the presence of social inequalities. It hypothesizes that social inequalities affect vulnerability and resilience through its impact on the capacity to cope and empirically analyses the differential impact of extreme...
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This report aims to contribute to the debate on climate change policies and their link to development. A climate resilient perspective is adopted to understand how climate change policy objectives can be reconciled with development goals. The report reviews the main theoretical concepts that...
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