TY - BOOK ID - 14268617 TI - Economics of climate change in the Arab world : case studies from Syria, Tunisia and Yemen AU - Verner, Dorte. AU - Breisinger, Clemens. AU - World Bank. PY - 2013 SN - 0821398466 0821398482 PB - Washington DC : Sustainable Development Department, Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Climatic changes KW - Crops and climate KW - Economic aspects KW - Agricultural climatology KW - Agriculture KW - Agroclimatology KW - Climate and crops KW - Crop micrometeorology KW - Crops KW - Plant biometeorology KW - Changes, Climatic KW - Climate change KW - Climate changes KW - Climate variations KW - Climatic change KW - Climatic fluctuations KW - Climatic variations KW - Global climate changes KW - Global climatic changes KW - Climatic factors KW - Environmental aspects KW - Agricultural ecology KW - Bioclimatology KW - Climatology KW - Climate change mitigation KW - Teleconnections (Climatology) KW - Changes in climate KW - Climate change science KW - Global environmental change UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14268617 AB - This book takes both a global as well as a local perspective in assessing the impacts of climate change on the economy, agricultural sector, and households in three of the MENA countries; Syria, Tunisia and Yemen. The major channels of impact for global climate change are through changing world food (and energy) prices, especially since all the countries under analysis are or have become net importers of oil and petroleum products and many food commodities in recent years. The impacts of local climate change decrease crop yields in the longer run and through them, productivity in the agricultu ER -