climate change and its possible impacts on the environment and socio-economic systems now constitute the most important environmental problem facing mankind in the 21st century. climate change will increase poverty and hardship, endanger food security, destabilize economies, decrease food and water and create social insecurity in many countries and undermine our goals for achieving sustainable ...

the present study used different categories of organized sector manufacturing industries pooled data for the periods of 1981-82 and 2007-08 in haryana state (india). the present undertaking seeks to analyze the inter-temporal and inter-industry comparison of total factor productivity (tfp) measured by malmquist productivity index - an application of dea which calculates the indices of tfp and i...

The aim of this paper is to analyze total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components in Asian countries applying Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) to the time series data of 44 Asian countries from 2000 to 2010. Using Battese and Coelli approach, TFP is divided into technical efficiency change and technical change. TFP decomposition using SFA method for the years 1998 to 2007 indicate...

the aim of this paper is to analyze total factor productivity (tfp) growth and its components in asian countries applying stochastic frontier analysis (sfa) to the time series data of 44 asian countries from 2000 to 2010. using battese and coelli approach, tfp is divided into technical efficiency change and technical change. tfp decomposition using sfa method for the years 1998 to 2007 indicate...

the aim of this paper is to study the impacts of technological progress and efficiency change on the productivity growth of iran agriculture separated by provinces. the period of this study is from 2005-2014. first of all, the impacts of efficiency change and technology change were separated using dea and malmquist model. then, their impacts on productivity growth were studied. it was concluded...

A Point-Over-Threshold approach using a reparameterization of the Generalized Pareto Distribution (GPD) has been used to assess changes in the daily rainfall Barcelona series (1854–2006). A Bayesian approach, considering the suitable scale and physical features of the phenomenon, has been used to look for these alterations. Two different models have been assessed: existence of abrupt changes in...

Precipitation efficiency (PE) relates cloud condensation to precipitation and intrinsically binds atmospheric circulation the hydrological cycle. Due PE’s inherent microphysical dependencies, definitions estimates vary immensely. Consequently, sensitivity greenhouse warming implications for climate change are poorly understood. Here, we quantify role in by defining a simple index ϵ as ratio of ...