Understanding Climate Change Adaptation Issues in Nepal

Adaptation to climate change: Commitment and timing issues

We study the impact of timing and commitment on adaptation and mitigation policies in the context of international environmental problems. Adaptation policies present the characteristics of a private good and may require a prior investment, while mitigation policies produce a public good. By developing a stylized model, where some countries coordinate their actions while others do not, we evalu...

Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change: Concepts, Issues, Assessment Methods

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Understanding Farmer Perspectives on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

The statistical models used in this study adapt the multivariate capabilities of structural equation models (SEMs) to handle variables with discrete ordered response categories. These models link the observed (categorical) response y i,j for item j by subject i to an unobserved continuous variable y * i,j through an ordinal probit model. An example for a five-category item would be: 1 if agree)...

Adaptation to Climate Change

We investigate the effect of climate change on population growth in 18th and 19th century Iceland. We find that annual temperature changes help determine the population growth rate in preindustrial Iceland: a year 1◦C cooler than average drives down population growth rates by 0.57% in each of the next two years, for a total effect of 1.14%. We also find that 18th and 19th century Icelanders ada...

Climate Change and Adaptation