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Weather Value at Risk: On the Measurement of Noncatastrophic Weather Risk

Weather, Climate, and Society, 2012
AbstractAn evaluation of weather risk entails two important objectives: indicating the economic impact of weather variability and climate change, and evaluating the use of weather derivatives in weather risk reduction and climate change adaptation strategy.
Christoph Toeglhofer, Roland Mestel, Franz Prettenthaler   +2 more
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Weather Risk Management in Agriculture Using Weather Derivatives

RIVISTA DI ECONOMIA AGRARIA, 2022
The purpose of this paper is to examine weather risk management by application of weather derivatives in agriculture and evaluate the hedging efficiency. Agriculture is a sector highly sensitive to meteorological elements that affect the yield of many crops.
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Maternal exposure to fine particulate matter and preterm birth and low birth weight in Africa

Environment International, 2022
Background: Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure has been reported to adversely affect birth outcomes, but the evidence is limited, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We assessed the associations between maternal PM2.5 exposure
Jovine Bachwenkizi, Cong Liu, Xia Meng, Lina Zhang, Weidong Wang, Aaron van Donkelaar, Randall V. Martin, Melanie S. Hammer, Renjie Chen, Haidong Kan   +9 more
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Stochastic Simulation of Tropical Cyclones for Risk Assessment at One Go: A Multivariate Functional PCA Approach

Earth and Space Science, 2021
A multivariate functional principal component analysis approach to the full‐track simulation of tropical cyclones (TCs) is developed for risk assessment. Elemental variables of TC along the track necessary for risk assessment, such as center coordinates,
Chi Yang, Jing Xu, Jianming Yin
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Index Insurance as an Innovative Tool for Managing Weather Risks in the Agrarian Sector of Economics

Journal of Competitiveness, 2018
This article justifies the use of a new methodical approach to index insurance of agricultural producers against weather risks, in particular, the use of the thermal-hydraulic combined index (Іth) as the weather index of the effect of several triggers ...
Olena Prokopchuk, Ihor Prokopchuk, Grzegorz Mentel   +2 more
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Temperature-related death burden of various neurodegenerative diseases under climate warming: a nationwide modelling study

Nature Communications, 2023
Limited knowledge exists regarding the ramifications of climate warming on death burden from neurodegenerative diseases. Here, we conducted a nationwide, individual-level, case-crossover study between 2013 and 2019 to investigate the effects of non ...
Peng Yin, Ya Gao, Renjie Chen, Wei Liu, Cheng He, Junwei Hao, Maigeng Zhou, Haidong Kan   +7 more
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Optimizing Smallholder Farmers' Productivity Through Crop Selection, Targeting and Prioritization Framework in the Limpopo and Free State Provinces, South Africa

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022
Smallholder farmers like those in Limpopo and the Free State (FS) Province of South Africa sometimes incur high production costs due to their crop choices. This cost is exacerbated by the challenges posed by climate change and the socio-economic position
Priscilla Ntuchu Kephe, Priscilla Ntuchu Kephe, Lendeu Constantain Siewe, Ratunku Gabriel Lekalakala, Kingsley Kwabena Ayisi, Brilliant Mareme Petja, Brilliant Mareme Petja, Brilliant Mareme Petja   +7 more
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Maternal Weathering and Risk of Preterm Delivery

American Journal of Public Health, 2009
Objectives. We compared the association between advancing maternal age and risk of preterm delivery across 4 groups (Black smokers, Black nonsmokers, White smokers, White nonsmokers) and within the context of neighborhood deprivation levels. Methods. We obtained data from linked census and birth records for singletons (n = 182 938) delivered by women
Claudia, Holzman, Janet, Eyster, Mary, Kleyn, Lynne C, Messer, Jay S, Kaufman, Barbara A, Laraia, Patricia, O'Campo, Jessica G, Burke, Jennifer, Culhane, Irma T, Elo   +9 more
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Spatial Risk Premium on Weather Derivatives and Hedging Weather Exposure in Electricity [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
Due to the dependency of the energy demand on temperature, weather derivatives enable the effective hedging of temperature related fluctuations. However, temperature varies in space and time and therefore the contingent weather derivatives also vary. The spatial derivative price distribution involves a risk premium.
Wolfgang Karl Härdle, Maria Osipenko
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QUALITATIVE RISK COVERAGE IN AGRICULTURE THROUGH DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS BASED ON SELYANINOV INDICES [PDF]

Financial Studies, 2013
The financial product designed by the authors belongs to the class of derivative financial instruments, having “weather conditions” as basic variable; the settlement is oriented to options on OTC markets, which are able to adapt to the farmers’ risk ...
Cristian KEVORCHIAN, Camelia GAVRILESCU, Gheorghe HURDUZEU   +2 more
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