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Open AccessPotential climate-induced impacts on trade: the case of agricultural commodities and maritime chokepoints
This study assesses the potential macro-economic effects of climate change affecting operations in three maritime chokepoints, i.e., the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal, and the Turkish Straits. The analysis focu...
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Open AccessDistribution of economic damages due to climate-driven sea-level rise across European regions and sectors
Economic costs of climate change are conventionally assessed at the aggregated global and national levels, while adaptation is local. When present, regionalised assessments are confined to direct damages, hind...
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Assessing Macro-economic Effects of Climate Impacts on Energy Demand in EU Sub-national Regions
European policy makers are increasingly interested in higher spatial representations of future macro-economic consequences from climate-induced shifts in the energy demand. Indeed, EU sub-national level analys...
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New damage curves and multimodel analysis suggest lower optimal temperature
Economic analyses of global climate change have been criticized for their poor representation of climate change damages. Here we develop and apply aggregate damage functions in three economic Integrated Assess...
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Open AccessAccounting for adaptation and its effectiveness in International Environmental Agreements
This paper analyses, within a standard International Environmental Agreement game, the effect of the introduction of adaptation on climate negotiation. The model expands the existing literature by considering ...
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Fiscal effects and the potential implications on economic growth of sea-level rise impacts and coastal zone protection
Climate change impacts on coastal zones could be significant unless adaptation is undertaken. One particular macroeconomic dimension of sea level rise (SLR) impacts that has received no attention so far is the...
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Building Risk into the Mitigation/Adaptation Decisions simulated by Integrated Assessment Models
This paper proposes an operationally simple and easily generalizable methodology to incorporate climate change damage uncertainty into Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs). First uncertainty is transformed into...
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Climate Change and Adaptation: The Case of Nigerian Agriculture
The present research offers an economic assessment of climate change impacts on the four major crop families characterizing Nigerian agriculture. The evaluation is performed by shocking land productivity in a ...
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A Sub-national CGE Model for the European Mediterranean Countries
This chapter describes the methodology used to develop a Computable General Equilibrium model with sub-national detail for the Euro-Mediterranean area: Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and Greece. The main purpo...
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Robust Decision Making for a Climate-Resilient Development of the Agricultural Sector in Nigeria
Adaptation options that work reasonably well across an entire range of potential outcomes are shown to be preferable in a context of deep uncertainty. This is because robust practices that are expected to perf...
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REDD in the Carbon Market: A General Equilibrium Analysis
Deforestation is a major source of CO2 emissions, accounting for around 17 % of annual anthropogenic carbon release. While costs estimates of reducing deforestation vary depending on model assumptions, it is wide...
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Integrated Socio-Economic Assessment (The Economic Point of View)
This section introduces the main methodologies used by the climate change impact science to assess economically the consequences of climate change. Furthermore it presents the main findings of this literature ...
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Energy from waste: generation potential and mitigation opportunity
The present research proposes a macroeconomic assessment of the role of waste incineration with energy recovery (WtE) and controlled landfill biogas to electricity generation and their potential contribution t...
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Economic impacts of climate change in Europe: sea-level rise
This paper uses two models to examine the direct and indirect costs of sea-level rise for Europe for a range of sea-level rise scenarios for the 2020s and 2080s: (1) the DIVA model to estimate the physical imp...
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Open AccessKLUM@GTAP: Introducing Biophysical Aspects of Land-Use Decisions into a Computable General Equilibrium Model a Coupling Experiment
In this paper, the global agricultural land use model Kleines Land Use Model is coupled to an extended version of the computable general equilibrium model (CGE) Global Trade Analysis Project in order to consisten...
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Economy-wide impacts of climate change: a joint analysis for sea level rise and tourism
While climate change impacts on human life have well defined and different origins, the interactions among the diverse impacts are not yet fully understood. Their final effects, however, especially those invol...
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Economy-wide Estimates of the Implications of Climate Change: Sea Level Rise
The economy-wide implications of sea level rise in 2050 are estimated using a static computable general equilibrium model. This allows for a better estimate of the welfare effects of sea level rise than the co...
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Carbon Emissions Trading and Equity in International Agreements
This paper explores the distributional consequences of alternative emissions trading schemes. It is argued that the distributional impact stems from the difference between two social welfare functions: the fun...
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Distributional Consequences of Alternative Emissions Trading Schemes
Issues of equity and fairness have been much debated in the context of the international agreements on the reduction of greenhouse gases, especially before, during and after the negotiations for the Kyoto Prot...
