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1998 Forthcoming: Henk Folmer and Tom Tietenberg (eds), International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics 1999/2000: A Survey of Current Issues (Cheltenham, UK:Edward Elgar, 1999). ? Research supported by US Department of Energy grant number DE-FG03-96ER62277. Portions of this paper are adapted from Kolstad (1998). ?? Department of Economics, University of Miami, Box 248126, Coral Gables, ...
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in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania): Vulnerability to Climate Extremes Abiy S. Kebede and Robert J. Nicholls University of Southampton School of Civil Engineering and the Environment and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Southampton, Highfield, SO17 1BJ United Kingdom REPORT SUBMITTED TO: Global Climate Adaptation Partnership (GCAP) 17 JANUARY 2011 Kebede and Nicholls (2010) Population and Assets Exposure to Coastal Flooding ...
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