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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Climatic changes--Economic aspects"”.
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Essays in the economics and political economy of climate change
Empirical research on anthropogenic climate change is constrained by two fundamental facts: climate change is unprecedented and its impacts occur gradually. This implies that neither evidence from recent history nor the near future can directly inform policy. Under such circumstances, empirical …
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Essays on Climatic Risks and Vulnerability-Reduction Strategies
… in physical and biological systems; (ii) socio-economic consequences of climatic variability in human systems; and (iii) the design of formal insurance instruments to reduce socio-economic vulnerability to climatic risk, as adaptation strategies. Each part represents an independent study.
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Essays in Climatic Extremes, Agriculture and Natural Resources
… attempts to add to our understanding of two aspects of the climate change issue, using tools from two different disciplines: Economics and Hydro-Climatology, for the case of India. The two aspects addressed are :( 1) understanding and summarizing changes in the climate system (and systems …
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The carbon disclosure project, an evolution in international environmental corporate governance : motivations and determinants of market response to voluntary disclosures
This paper examines the factors associated with Canadian firms voluntarily disclosing climate change information through the Carbon Disclosure Project. Five hypotheses are presented to explain the factors influencing management's decision to disclose this information. These hypotheses include a …
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The economics of climate change and the change of climate in economics: the implications for climate policy of adopting an evolutionary perspective
… question and as such, is considered amenable to economic scrutiny. Indeed, in today’s world economics is inevitable when it comes to arbitrages in the field of policy making. From the very beginning of international talks on climate change, up until the most recent discussions on a post-Kyoto …