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Stern Review: The Economics of Climate Change
Siobhan Peters,Vicki Bakhshi,Alex Bowen,Catherine Cameron,Sebastian Catovsky,Di Crane,Sophie Cruickshank,Simon Dietz,Nicola Edmondson,Su-Lin Garbett,Lorraine Hamid,Gideon Hoffman,Daniel Ingram,Ben Jones,Nicole Patmore,Helene Radcliffe,Raj Sathiyarajah,Michelle Stock,Chris F. Taylor,Tamsin Vernon,Hannah Wanjie,Dimitri Zenghelis,Nicholas Stern +22 more
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In this paper, the authors examine the evidence on the economic impacts of climate change itself, and explore the economics of stabilizing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, concluding that the benefits of strong, early action on climate change considerably outweigh the costs.Abstract:
The Review's executive summary states that "the Review first examines the evidence on the economic impacts of climate change itself, and explores the economics of stabilizing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The second half of the Review considers the complex policy challenges involved in managing the transition to a low-carbon economy and in ensuring that societies can adapt to the consequences of climate change that can no longer be avoided".
The report's main conclusion is that the benefits of strong, early action on climate change considerably outweigh the costs.read more
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The Economic Effects of Climate Change
TL;DR: Greenhouse gas emissions are fundamental both to the world's energy system and to its food production as discussed by the authors, and they are the mother of all externalities: larger, more complex, and more uncertain than any other environmental problem.
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The food waste hierarchy as a framework for the management of food surplus and food waste
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the factors that give rise to food waste throughout the food supply chain, and propose a framework to identify and prioritize the most appropriate options for prevention and management of food waste.
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A survey of urban climate change experiments in 100 cities
TL;DR: A database analysis reveals urban climate change experimentation as a global trend and a characteristic trend of experimentation led by private actors emerges in Asia.
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Public policies against global warming: a supply side approach
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the remaining policy options against global warming from an intertemporal supply-side perspective, and discuss how suppliers feel threatened by a gradual greening of economic policies in the Kyoto countries that would damage their future prices, thus accelerating global warming.
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The implications of projected climate change for freshwater resources and their management
Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz,Luis J. Mata,Nigel W. Arnell,Petra Döll,B. Jimenez,Kathleen A. Miller,Taikan Oki,Zekâi Şen,I. A. Shiklomanov +8 more
TL;DR: The implications of projected climate change for freshwater resources and their management are discussed in this article, where the authors present an analysis of the potential impacts of climate change on freshwater resources in terms of their management.
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Climate change 2001: the scientific basis
John Theodore Houghton,Y. Ding,David John Griggs,M. Noguer,P. J. van der Linden,X. Dai,K. Maskell,C. A. Johnson +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of the climate system and its dynamics, including observed climate variability and change, the carbon cycle, atmospheric chemistry and greenhouse gases, and their direct and indirect effects.
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The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a method to use the information of the user's interaction with the service provider in order to improve the quality of the service provided to the user.
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Greed and Grievance in Civil War
Paul Collier,Anke Hoeffler +1 more
TL;DR: Collier and Hoeffler as discussed by the authors compare two contrasting motivations for rebellion: greed and grievance, and show that many rebellions are linked to the capture of resources (such as diamonds in Angola and Sierra Leone, drugs in Colombia, and timber in Cambodia).
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On the Measurement of Inequality
TL;DR: In this paper, the problem of comparing two frequency distributions f(u) of an attribute y which for convenience I shall refer to as income is defined as a risk in the theory of decision-making under uncertainty.
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Greed and grievance in civil war
Paul Collier,Anke Hoeffler +1 more
TL;DR: The authors investigated the causes of civil war, using a new data set of wars during 1960-99 and found that economic viability appears to be the predominant systematic explanation of rebellion, while atypically severe grievances such as high inequality, a lack of political rights, or ethnic and religious divisions in society.