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How does climate change adaptation affect public budgets? Development of an assessment framework and a demonstration for Austria

Public adaptation to climate change affects government budgets directly on the expenditure side, but also indirectly via changes in the tax base and government consumption patterns. While such indirect effects have been analyzed intensively for mitigation policies, similarly detailed model-based fra...

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Published in:Mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change 2019-10, Vol.24 (7), p.1325-1341
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Atmospheric Sciences
Budgets
Climate adaptation
Climate change
Climate change adaptation
Climate Change Management and Policy
Consumption patterns
Costs
Disaster relief
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Economic development
Employment
Environmental impact
Environmental Management
Expenditures
Federal budget
Frameworks
Macroeconomics
Mitigation
Modelling
Original Article
Policies
Revenue
Taxation
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