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Francisco Estrada,Carlos Gay-García,René Garduño-López

Environmental problems are typically produced by the interactions of complex natural and human systems and can entail far-reaching and sometimes irreversible consequences. Their study is characterized by the existence of incomplete knowledge and high leve... see more

Robert Mendelsohn,Jinxia Wang

The success of the green revolution has prompted some analysts to suggest it can be extended more broadly to all poor farmers. This paper argues that suitable natural endowments are an important precondition for high input farming. Examining production fu... see more

Acel Jardon,Onno Kuik,Richard S.J. Tol

 This paper analyzes the empirical relationship between carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per-capita and economic growth in a panel of 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries over the period 1971-2011. This empirical relationship, known in the economi... see more

Toon Haer,Wouter Botzen,Jorge Zavala-Hidalgo,Carline Cusell,Philip J. Ward

Economic losses as a result of natural hazards have been rising over the past few decades due to socio-economic development and perhaps climate change. This upwards trend is projected to continue, highlighting the need for adequate adaptation strategies. ... see more

Richard S.J. Tol

The Fisher ideal index, developed to measure price inflation, is applied to define a population-weighted temperature trend. This method has the advantages that the trend is representative for the population distribution throughout the sample but without c... see more

Thomas Schinko,Gabriel Bachner,Stefan Schleicher,Karl W. Steininger

Limiting global warming to prevent dangerous climate change requires drastically reducing global greenhouse gases emissions and a transformation towards a low-carbon society. Existing energy- and climate-economic modeling approaches that are informing pol... see more

Francisco Estrada,Luis Felipe Martins,Pierre Perron

Because of low-frequency internal variability, the observed and underlying warming trends in temperature series can be markedly different. Important differences in the observed nonlinear trends in hemispheric temperature series suggest that the northern a... see more