EEU Seminar with Jacqueline Adelowo
This EEU Seminar will be held on Monday the 10th of June at 12:10 – 13:15 in B 44. The seminar will be held by Jacqueline Adelowo. The title of the paper she will be presenting is: Household…
EEU Seminar with Moritz Drupp
For this EEU Seminar the presenter will be Moritz Drupp Moritz is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Economics, esp. Environmental Economics, at the Department of Economics, University of Hamburg…
EEU Seminar with Anjali Ramakrishnan
This EEU Seminar will be held on Monday the 05th of February at 12:10 – 13:15 in E44. The seminar will be held by Anjali Ramakrishnan. Anjali is a researcher in the project on Inclusive Green…
Blame it on the rain: Rainfall variability, consumption smoothing, and subjective well‐being in rural Ethiopia
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AbstractHow does income uncertainty affect individual well‐being? Combining individual‐level panel data from rural Ethiopia with high‐resolution meteorological data, we estimate that mean‐preserving increases in rainfall variability are associated with reductions in objective consumption and subjective well‐being. Mediation analysis suggests that the estimated reduction in consumption does not fully explain the total effect on individual well‐being. Increased rainfall variability also has a large direct effect on individual well‐being.
The gendered effects of climate change: Evidence from droughts in rural India
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In contrast to previous research, which suggests that women's employment rises during negative household income shocks in low-income economies, the findings in this study, reveal that, despite an increased likelihood of seeking work due to aggregate income shocks, women's employment may not rise if their labor mobility is constrained. Moreover, the impact of climatic shocks may be enduring. The cross-sectional analysis indicates that gender disparities in non-farm employment and migration are more pronounced in villages exposed to higher risks from rainfall variability.
Dirty fuel dominates the energy mix in Kenya
Kenya's energy mix encompasses biomass, oil, electricity, coal, and hydrogen, with coal and hydrogen being less prevalent. Most Kenyan citizens rely on biomass, especially firewood and charcoal, but…
Tree diversity in a tropical agricultural-forest mosaic landscape in Honduras
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AbstractBiodiversity decline in the tropics requires the implementation of comprehensive landscape management where agricultural systems are necessarily an integral element of biodiversity conservation. This study evaluates the potential for taxonomic biodiversity conservation within an intensive livestock-agricultural-forest mosaic landscape in Catacamas, Honduras. Tree sampling was performed in 448 plots set up within different forest and agricultural land uses: secondary forests, agroforestry coffee plantations, agriculture, pastures, live fences and riparian forest.
Does Green Infrastructure Work? Precipitation, Protected Areas, Floods and Landslides
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We use monthly municipality data for the period 2000-2015 in Guatemala and monthly district data for the period 1992-2019 in Costa Rica. We define relevant catchment areas using water flows to the population centers of the administrative units. Then, we calculate the precipitation inside and outside Pas within the relevant catchment areas, and test how the frequency of floods and landslides is affected by whether rain falls inside or outside PAs. We use a two-way fixed-effects panel data model. For Guatemala, we find no robust statistically significant effects on these types of disasters.