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Climate Change Policies and Employment in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

World Bank / by Isil Oral, Indhira Santos, and Fan Zhang http://bit.ly/W3teKL [Abstract] This paper analyzes the differential impact of climate change policies on employment in Eastern Europe and...

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A Complex Constellation: Displacement, Climate Change and Arctic People

Brookings / by Elizabeth Ferris http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2013/01/30-arctic-ferris What will be the impact and potential impact of climate change on the mobility of indigenous...

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Climate Change and Human Mobility in Indigenous Communities of the Russian North

Brookings Institution / by Susan A. Crate http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2013/01/30-arctic-russia-crate This paper explores the effects of climate change on human mobility (displacement,...

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Climate-Induced Displacement of Alaska Native Communities

Brookings Institution / by Robin Bronen http://bit.ly/VvXgva Alaska has warmed twice as fast as the global average during the past half-century, and temperatures are projected to rise 1.5-5° F (1-3 ºC)...

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Climate Change and Displacement for Indigenous Communities in Arctic Scandinavia

Brookings Institution / by Ilan Kelman and Marius Warg Næss http://bit.ly/11fqaRR This paper explores anthropogenic climate change influencing displacement/migration for the Saami in Finland, Norway...

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The Arab Spring and Climate Change

Center for American Progress / edited by Caitlin E. Werrell and Francesco Femia http://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ClimateChangeArabSpring.pdf “The Arab Spring and Climate...

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Ohio’s Fracking Boom Has Not Affected Job Rate: Report

aka “Ohio Utica Shale Region Monitor” Cleveland State University, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs http://urban.csuohio.edu/publications/hill/OhioUticaShaleRegionMonitor_Mar2013.pdf...

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Utica Shale Fracking Surge Not a Boon to Employment in Ohio

Ohio Utica Shale Region Monitor (dated March 2013) Cleveland State University, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs...

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Abnormal Weather Affects Internet Search Patterns & Coincides with...

Weather, Salience of Climate Change and Congressional Voting Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard University / by Evan Herrnstadt and Erich Muehlegger http://hvrd.me/177kWbo [Abstract] Climate change...

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Destruction, Disinvestment, and Death: Economic and Human Losses Following...

Social Science Research Network / by Jesse Keith Anttila-Hughes and Solomon M. Hsiang http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2220501 The immediate physical damages caused by environmental...

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Economics of Climate Change in East Asia

Asian Development Bank http://www.adb.org/publications/economics-climate-change-east-asia This regional study includes the People’s Republic of China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Mongolia and...

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Disquiet on the Weather Front : the Welfare Impacts of Climatic Variability...

World Bank / by Abla Safir, Sharon Faye Piza, and Emmanuel Skoufias http://bit.ly/1eVchPt Three recent rounds (2003, 2006, and 2009) of the Family Income and Expenditure Survey are matched to rainfall...

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Exaggerating the Employment Impacts of Shale Drilling: How and Why

Multi-State Shale Research Collaborative / by Frank Mauro, Michael Wood, Michele Mattingly, Mark Price, Stephen Herzenberg and Sharon Ward http://bit.ly/19L5BM7 [Energy Wire article by Pamala King,...

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Emerging Energy Industries and Rural Growth

USDA Economic Research Service / by Jason Brown, Jeremy Weber, and Tim Wojan http://1.usa.gov/1kDxJa5 This report builds on findings from recent studies led by U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic...

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Reverse the Curse: Maximizing the Potential of Resource-driven Economies

McKinsey & Co. / by Richard Dobbs, et al. http://bit.ly/1dSqdKJ Rising resource prices and expanded production have raised the number of countries where the resource sector represents a major share...

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Economic Implications of Unconventional Fossil Fuel Production

National Agriculture & Rural Development Policy Center / by Mark Partridge and Amanda Weinstein (dated “November 2013″) http://www.nardep.info/uploads/Brief15_EconomicsFossilFuel.pdf [Daily Yonder]...

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The Social Costs of Carbon? No, the Social Benefits of Carbon

Prepared for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity by Management Information Services, Inc. http://www.americaspower.org/sites/default/files/Social_Cost_of_Carbon.pdf [E&E News PM...

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Every Breath You Take – Every Dollar You’ll Make: The Long-Term Consequences...

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER Working Paper No. 19858) / by Adam Isen, Maya Rossin-Slater, W. Reed Walker ($5 for non-subscribers) http://www.nber.org/papers/w19858 This paper examines the...

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Water and Conflict: a Toolkit for Programming

US Agency for International Development, Wilson Center http://bit.ly/NzMMYC [From a Climate Wire article by Julia Pyper, sub. req'd]  …”Water insecurity, whether real or perceived, can contribute to...

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Ohio Shale Development Community Impact Survey: Primary Findings from 2013...

Ohio State Univ. http://bit.ly/NA2OSi [WKSU] A survey by Ohio University shows fracking communities in Ohio are reporting economic growth, but also creates issues with water demand. Scott Miller is the...

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