Search Results - "Tol, Richard S J"

A social cost of carbon for (almost) every country by Tol, Richard S.J.

“…This paper uses imputed national climate change impact functions to estimate national social costs of carbon, which are largest in poor countries with large…”
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The Economic Effects of Climate Change by Tol, Richard S. J.

“…I review the literature on the economic impacts of climate change, an externality that is unprecedentedly large, complex, and uncertain. Only 14 estimates of…”
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Coastal flood damage and adaptation costs under 21st century sea-level rise by Hinkel, Jochen, Lincke, Daniel, Vafeidis, Athanasios T., Perrette, Mahé, Nicholls, Robert James, Tol, Richard S. J., Marzeion, Ben, Fettweis, Xavier, lonescu, Cezar, Levermann, Anders

“…Coastal flood damage and adaptation costs under 21st century sea-level rise are assessed on a global scale taking into account a wide range of uncertainties in…”
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Climate change impacts on global agriculture by Calzadilla, Alvaro, Rehdanz, Katrin, Betts, Richard, Falloon, Pete, Wiltshire, Andy, Tol, Richard S. J.

“…Based on predicted changes in the magnitude and distribution of global precipitation, temperature and river flow under the IPCC SRES A1B and A2 scenarios, this…”
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Climate change and violent conflict in Europe over the last millennium by Tol, Richard S. J, Wagner, Sebastian

“…We investigate the relationship between a thousand-year history of violent conflict in Europe and various reconstructions of temperature and precipitation. We…”
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Targets for global climate policy: An overview by Tol, Richard S.J.

“…A survey of the economic impact of climate change and the marginal damage costs shows that carbon dioxide emissions are a negative externality. The estimated…”
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Economic costs of ocean acidification: a look into the impacts on global shellfish production by Narita, Daiju, Rehdanz, Katrin, Tol, Richard S. J.

“…Ocean acidification is increasingly recognized as a major global problem. Yet economic assessments of its effects are currently almost absent. Unlike most…”
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Economywide impacts of climate change on agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa by Calzadilla, Alvaro, Zhu, Tingju, Rehdanz, Katrin, Tol, Richard S.J., Ringler, Claudia

“…Two possible adaptation scenarios to climate change for Sub-Saharan Africa are analyzed under the SRES B2 scenario. The first scenario doubles the irrigated…”
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Economic impacts of climate change in Europe: sea-level rise by Bosello, Francesco, Nicholls, Robert J., Richards, Julie, Roson, Roberto, Tol, Richard S. J.

“…This paper uses two models to examine the direct and indirect costs of sea-level rise for Europe for a range of sea-level rise scenarios for the 2020s and…”
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A cost–benefit analysis of the EU 20/20/2020 package by Tol, Richard S.J.

“…The European Commission did not publish a cost–benefit analysis for its 2020 climate package. This paper fills that gap, comparing the marginal costs and…”
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On the Uncertainty About the Total Economic Impact of Climate Change by Tol, Richard S. J.

“…This paper uses a vote-counting procedure to estimate the probability density function of the total economic impact as a parabolic function of global warming…”
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The economic impact of climate change in the 20th and 21st centuries by Tol, Richard S. J.

“…The national version of FUND3.6 is used to backcast the impacts of climate change to the 20th century and extrapolate to the 21st century. Carbon dioxide…”
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Global economic impacts of climate variability and change during the 20th century by Estrada, Francisco, Tol, Richard S J, Botzen, Wouter J W

“…Estimates of the global economic impacts of observed climate change during the 20th century obtained by applying five impact functions of different integrated…”
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AD-DICE: an implementation of adaptation in the DICE model by de Bruin, Kelly C, Dellink, Rob B, Tol, Richard S. J

“…Integrated Assessment Models (IAMS) have helped us over the past decade to understand the interactions between the environment and the economy in the context…”
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Equity weighting and the marginal damage costs of climate change by Anthoff, David, Hepburn, Cameron, Tol, Richard S.J.

“…Climate change will give rise to different impacts in different countries, and different countries have different levels of development. Equity-weighted…”
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Economy-wide Estimates of the Implications of Climate Change: Sea Level Rise by Bosello, Francesco, Roson, Roberto, Tol, Richard S. J

“…The economy-wide implications of sea level rise in 2050 are estimated using a static computable general equilibrium model. This allows for a better estimate of…”
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Mediterranean UNESCO World Heritage at risk from coastal flooding and erosion due to sea-level rise by Reimann, Lena, Vafeidis, Athanasios T., Brown, Sally, Hinkel, Jochen, Tol, Richard S. J.

“…UNESCO World Heritage sites (WHS) located in coastal areas are increasingly at risk from coastal hazards due to sea-level rise. In this study, we assess…”
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The distributional implications of a carbon tax in Ireland by Callan, Tim, Lyons, Sean, Scott, Susan, Tol, Richard S.J., Verde, Stefano

“…We study the effects of carbon tax and revenue recycling across the income distribution in the Republic of Ireland. In absolute terms, a carbon tax of €20/tCO…”
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Global estimates of the impact of a collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet: an application of FUND by Nicholls, Robert J, Tol, Richard S. J, Vafeidis, Athanasios T

“…The threat of an abrupt and extreme rise in sea level is widely discussed in the media, but little understood in practise, especially the likely impacts of…”
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Disasters and development: natural disasters, credit constraints, and economic growth by McDermott, Thomas K.J., Barry, Frank, Tol, Richard S.J.

“…Using a simple two-period model of the economy, we demonstrate the potential effects of natural disasters on economic growth over the medium to long term. In…”
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