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... Local Economic and Employment Development Policy Approaches in OECD Countries Executive Summary and Synthesis of Findings CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY MESSAGES – 27 A REVIEW OF LOCAL ECONOMC AND ... analysis of policy lessons and messages for Wales. Secondly, the main policy recommendations for Wales are formulated synthetically. Finally, lessons and messages are expanded and discussed ... expectations. CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY MESSAGES – 23 A REVIEW OF LOCAL ECONOMC AND EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT POLICY APPROACHES IN OECD COUNTRIES –© OECD 2008 CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY MESSAGES Marco...

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... require political and public awareness and economic resources for timely and efficient policy treatment. In particular – and of no less significance than climate change – natural and human- made ... making, and (2) the establishment of ‘boundary organizations’ and institutional changes that increase the transfer of knowledge between not only science and policy, but also science, policy and practice. ... the environment, the economy and society as a whole. These involve cleavages between both the advocates and antagonists of ‘greening’ economic policy in specific nations and between nations, in particular...

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... renewal and transformation; and (3) and understanding of change and uncertainty as inherent in social-ecological systems. This statement strongly reflects the convergent aspects of CCA and DRR. ... CCA and DRR merged with insurance schemes could play an important role when discussing financial vul- nerability and managing risks for governments and communities. Understanding resilience and ... al. (2003) attri- bute coping capacity and adaptive capacity as separate dimensions of resilience, Smit and Wandel (2006) lump them together. To Smit and Wandel (2006), adaptive capacity is equivalent to...

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... Geneva, Switzerland. ISDR, 2009. Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction: Risk and Poverty in a Changing Climate. United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. Janssen, M. A. and Anderies, J. ... scholars, and increase collaboration between the young and the seasoned within academic institutions, development and relief organiz- ations and government. We see this path, embedded in adaptive and ... Olsson, P., Pritchard, L. and Young, O., 2006. Scale and cross-scale dynamics: governance and information in a multilevel world. Ecology and Society, 11(2). 8. Coleman, F. C. and Williams, S. L.,...

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... variability in landfalls. 3.2. Landfall rates and proportion Table 2 shows for three different periods – 1900 – 2008, 1951–2008 and 1979–2008 – the frequency of annual landfalls in the first and second ... of ENSO, NAO and AMO on landfall- ing storms and damage (e.g. Elsner and Jagger, 2006; Jagger et al., 2008). Elsner and Jagger (2008) find a relationship between the solar cycle and US hurricane ... the number of storms making landfall (cf. Elsner and Bossack, 2001; Elsner et al., 2003; Nzerem et al., 2008; Smith, 2008) and also in the intensity of storms at landfall (Landsea, 2005). This means that...

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... Change SAMUEL FANKHAUSER 1, *, DAVID KENNEDY 2 AND JIM SKEA 3 1 Grantham Research Institute and Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A ... hurricane landfalls and their impacts will be those who best match their decisions to what can and cannot be known about the uncertain future. And such wisdom starts with understanding the historical record and ... doi:10.1038/nature04477. Landsea, C. W., 2007. Counting Atlantic Tropical Cyclones back to 1900. EOS, 88. 197 and 202. Lonfat, M., Boissonnade, A. and Muir-Wood, R., 2007. Atlantic Basin, US and Caribbean landfall...

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... Climate change and the frequency and severity of natural disasters In addition to socio -economic developments, climate change may increase the intensity and severity of weather extremes and contribute ... under climate and socio -economic change 2.1. Impact of socio -economic developments on natural catastrophe damage Human-induced developments are a major deter- minant of the occurrence and consequences ... consistency with EU-wide energy and climate change policy, (2) the need to be con- sistent with the 2050 objective and make an ade- quate early contribution to the 2050 target; and (3) the need for budgets...

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... namely low economic growth (RC) and high growth (GE) and corresponding changes in the ‘portfolio of properties at risk’ module of Figure 2 were based on a land use model of the Neth- erlands (Janssen ... Assessment of future flood risk in the Nether- lands under a range of climate change and socio -economic scenarios Source: Aerts et al. (2008a) 214 Botzen and van den Bergh ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS 3.2.2. ... system that enhance this system’s resistance to disasters and its capacity to respond to, and cushion impacts of, a disaster (Handmer and Dovers, 1996; Boc ˇ kar- jova, 2007). Boc ˇ karjova (2007)...

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... disasters. Disaster Prevention and Manage- ment, 13(4). 307–314. Rose, A., 2004b. Economic principles, issues, and research priorities in hazard loss estimation. Model- ling Spatial and Economic Impacts of ... warming (Weingart et al., 2000; Andreadis and Smith, 2007). We are entering a period when careful interpretation and communication of the economic, political and social dimensions of climate ... transnational and com- pounded crises such as terrorism (Norris et al., 2003; Papacharissi and de Fatima Oliveira, 2008); pandemics (Buus and Olsson, 2006; Shih et al., 2008; Ungar, 2008) and climate...

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... wetlands which perform essential hydrological, biological and chemical functions and which support and maintain the productivity and health of the river systems. A number of the Basin wetlands ... (The Australian, 3 September 2008), and ‘Water dries up life on the land – Randall Crozier stands in the barren paddock, frowning at the drought-bleached desert sand’ (The Australian, 13 September ... touches upon broad policy areas invol- ving water management and climate change, policy areas that are highly politicized in the Aus- tralian context, and as such involve many twists and turns in which...

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