Understanding the adaptation deficit: why are poor countries more vulnerable to climate events than rich countries?
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- Samuel Fankhauser & Thomas K.J. McDermott, 2013. "Understanding the adaptation deficit: why are poor countries more vulnerable to climate events than rich countries?," GRI Working Papers 134, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
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Keywords
climate change; adaptation; development; extreme events; disaster risk;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
- Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2015-02-05 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-ENE-2015-02-05 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2015-02-05 (Environmental Economics)
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