A unifying approach to measuring climate change impacts and adaptation

Bento, Antonio M.; Miller, Noah; Mookerjee, Mehreen; Severnini, Edson

doi:10.1016/j.jeem.2023.102843

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“…A great part of the adaptation literature focuses on econometric techniques to disentangle climate and weather effects and estimate adaptation by comparing the two . Yet, estimation is almost always conducted at the regional level.…”

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“…A great part of the adaptation literature focuses on econometric techniques to disentangle climate and weather effects and estimate adaptation by comparing the two. 30 Yet, estimation is almost always conducted at the regional level. While some adaptation is place-based (citywide initiatives of climate refuges are an example), individuals greatly adapt to climate conditions.…”

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SHARE-ENV: A Data Set to Advance Our Knowledge of the Environment–Wellbeing Relationship

Midões,

De Cian,

Pasini

et al. 2024

Environ. Health

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Climate change interacts with other environmental stressors and vulnerability factors. Some places and, owing to socioeconomic conditions, some people, are far more at risk. The data behind current assessments of the environment−wellbeing nexus is coarse and regionally aggregated, when considering multiple regions/groups; or, when granular, comes from ad hoc samples with few variables. To assess the impacts of climate change, we require data that are granular and comprehensive, both in the variables and population studied. We build a publicly accessible data set, the SHARE-ENV data set, which fulfills these criteria. We expand on EU representative, individual-level, longitudinal data (the SHARE survey), with environmental exposure information about temperature, radiation, precipitation, pollution, and flood events. We illustrate through four simplified multilevel linear regressions, cross-sectional and longitudinal, how full-fledged studies can use SHARE-ENV to contribute to the literature. Such studies would help assess climate impacts and estimate the effectiveness and fairness of several climate adaptation policies. Other surveys can be expanded with environmental information to unlock different research avenues.

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SHARE-ENV: A Data Set to Advance Our Knowledge of the Environment–Wellbeing Relationship

Midões,

De Cian,

Pasini

et al. 2024

Environ. Health

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Incidental Adaptation: The Role of Non-climate Regulations

Bento

Miller

Mookerjee

et al. 2023

Environ Resource Econ

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When a non-climate institution, policy, or regulation corrects a pre-existing market failure that would be exacerbated by climate change, it may also incidentally induce climate adaptation. This regulation-induced adaptation can have large positive welfare effects. We develop a tractable analytical framework of a corrective regulation where the market failure interacts with climate, highlighting the mechanism of regulation-induced adaptation: reductions in the climate-exacerbated effects of pre-existing market failures. We demonstrate this empirically for the US from 1980 to 2013, showing that ambient ozone concentrations increase with rising temperatures, but that such increase is attenuated in counties that are out of attainment with the Clean Air Act’s ozone standards. Adaptation in nonattainment counties reduced the impact of a 1 °C increase in climate normal temperature on ozone concentration by 0.64 parts per billion, or about one-third of the total impact. Over half of that effect was induced by the standard, implying a regulation-induced welfare benefit of $412–471 million per year by mid-century under current warming projections.

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