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Adapting to Climate Change: Costs, Benefits and Modelling Approaches
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- This paper provides a summary and a critical survey of the methodologies and results of the literature on the economics of adaptation. We divide the literature into two broad areas of research. First, we examine the studies that analyse adaptation from a bottom-up perspective. Second, we introduce the studies that examine adaptation using a top-down approach. The first group of studies investigates cost and benefits of adaptation at the sectoral, regional and global level. The second group includes theoretical literature on the relationship between mitigation and adaptation as well as emerging insights from some global Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs), which have recently been extended to include adaptation as an alternative and complementary policy option to mitigation. This latter development has raised issues that represent new challenges for the research community. In particular, understanding how to integrate the vast amount of information provided by the bottomup literature on climate change impacts and adaptation into global
- Subjects :
- Economics and Econometrics
Cost–benefit analysis
climate change policies
Computer science
Global warming
Climate change
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Environmental economics
Adaptation
climate change
Accounting
Research community
Economic analysis
Critical survey
Economic impact analysis
Adaptation (computer science)
Finance
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cc69c5ea12ea7e45d15c04723a1c48e0