scholarly journals Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 152-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivier Deschênes ◽  
Michael Greenstone
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Residential Energy ◽  
Residential Energy Consumption ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Us ◽  
Business As Usual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Annual Mortality

Using random year-to-year variation in temperature, we document the relationship between daily temperatures and annual mortality rates and daily temperatures and annual residential energy consumption. Both relationships exhibit nonlinearities, with significant increases at the extremes of the temperature distribution. The application of these results to “business as usual” climate predictions indicates that by the end of the century climate change will lead to increases of 3 percent in the age-adjusted mortality rate and 11 percent in annual residential energy consumption. These estimates likely overstate the long-run costs, because climate change will unfold gradually allowing individuals to engage in a wider set of adaptations. (JEL I12, Q41, Q54)

Potential Impact of Climate Change on Residential Energy Consumption in Dhaka City

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Sabbir Ahmed Shourav ◽  
Shamsuddin Shahid ◽  
Bachan Singh ◽  
Morteza Mohsenipour ◽  
Eun-Sung Chung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Dhaka City ◽  
Residential Energy ◽  
Residential Energy Consumption ◽  
Impact Of Climate Change ◽  
Potential Impact

scholarly journals Exploring the Relationship between Residential CO2 Emissions, Urbanization, Economic Growth, and Residential Energy Consumption: Evidence from the North Africa Region

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (18) ◽  
pp. 5849
Author(s):  
Charifa Haouraji ◽  
Badia Mounir ◽  
Ilham Mounir ◽  
Abdelmajid Farchi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
Residential Energy ◽  
Residential Energy Consumption ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
The North ◽  
The Relationship

Rapid urbanization, coupled with income growth, will inevitably cause the residential energy consumption in the North Africa region to continue to increase, with adverse effects on the climate, human health, and the economy. In these regards, this paper explores the relationship between residential carbon dioxide emissions (RCO2), urbanization, economic growth, and residential energy use in four North African countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Egypt) over the period 1990–2016. To do this, we used the bounds cointegration and the Toda–Yamamoto Granger causality test. The existence of cointegration relationships was confirmed for the four countries. In the long run, the environment Kuznets curve relationship between increased income per capita and RCO2 emissions was verified for only Morocco and Tunisia. The causality analysis also reveals a combination of neutral, unidirectional, and bidirectional relationships for all countries. The RCO2 emissions have not proved to be a limiting factor in any country’s economic growth. The findings of this study certainly contribute to advancing the existing literature by emphasizing the income–pollution nexus in African countries. Policy makers and government regulators should implement the necessary policies that accelerate the development of renewable technologies to drive sustainable cooling and heating as well as water management.

The Historiography of Environmental History

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. McNeill
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Industrial Pollution ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discusses the emergence of environmental history, which developed in the context of the environmental concerns that began in the 1960s with worries about local industrial pollution, but which has since evolved into a full-scale global crisis of climate change. Environmental history is ‘the history of the relationship between human societies and the rest of nature’. It includes three chief areas of inquiry: the study of material environmental history, political and policy-related environmental history, and a form of environmental history which concerns what humans have thought, believed, written, and more rarely, painted, sculpted, sung, or danced that deals with the relationship between society and nature. Since 1980, environmental history has come to flourish in many corners of the world, and scholars everywhere have found models, approaches, and perspectives rather different from those developed for the US context.

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