Weather shocks and natural disasters, it has been argued, represent a major threat to national and international security. Our paper contributes to the emerging micro-level strand of the literature on the link between local variations in weather shocks and conflict by focusing on a pixel-level analysis for North and South Sudan at different geographical and time scales between 1997 and 2009. Temperature ...
Sechs Jahre nach der Verabschiedung des Kyoto-Protokolls im Dezember 1997 sind die meisten Länder der internationalen Staatengemeinschaft noch weit von den damals verabredeten Klimaschutzzielen entfernt. Im Jahre 2001 lagen die Treibhausgas-Emissionen in den OECD-Ländern, die im Kyoto-Protokoll bis zur Periode 2008 bis 2012 noch eine Emissionsreduktion zugesagt hatten (so genannte Annex-II-Länder), ...
This study models maximum temperatures in Switzerland monitored in twelve locations using the generalised extreme value (GEV) distribution. The parameters of the GEV distribution are determined within a Bayesian framework. We find that the parameters of the underlying distribution underwent a substantial change in the beginning of the 1980s. This change is characterised by an increase both in the level ...
