Introduction to the Special Issue on the Economics of Climate Change Impacts on Developing Countries: Selected Studies on Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia

Akpalu, Wisdom; Arndt, Channing; Matshe, Innocent

doi:10.3390/su70912122

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“…Increasing SST contributes to a decline in the biomass of zooplankton, a key component of the aquatic ecosystem. Studies have documented the harmful effects of higher temperatures on fish production in Ghana (Akpalu et al, 2015;IPCC, 2014).…”

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Ghana Country Environmental Analysis

2020

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“…Compared to other continents in the world, Africa emits low amounts of Green House Gases (GHGs) (African Development Report [ADR], 2012;Akpalu, Arndt, & Matshe, 2015;Vorster, Winkler, & Jooste, 2011). 2 Although the continent's total carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions have increased by about 35% over the last two decades according to recent estimates, the continent's emission per capita is about 13 times less than that of North America (ADR, 2012;IEA, 2012).…”

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Public disclosure for carbon abatement: African decision-makers in a PROPER public good experiment

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Abidoye

Muchapondwa

et al. 2016

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A linear public good experiment adopted from Holt and Laury [1997. Classroom games: Voluntary provision of a public good. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 11(4), 209-215.] has been employed to investigate strategic behaviour in pollution abatement among African climate decision-makers. The experiment consisted of three groups, of which groups 2 and 3 received one and two treatments, respectively. The first treatment entailed publicly disclosing the pollution of each member of a group by placing a corresponding colour-coded card in front of each subject, while the second involved the withdrawal of the public disclosure. Group 2 received the first treatment; Group 3 received both the first and second treatments in succession. We found that the untreated group (baseline) polluted more than the two treated groups, and there was no statistically significant difference between the pollution abatement of the two treated groups. These results suggest that public disclosure potentially drives pollution abatement and that its eventual withdrawal does not obliterate abatement behaviour. We did not observe conditional cooperation but average pollution declined over time. Furthermore, individuals who thought it was unfair for Africa to reduce emissions polluted more. We also found that pollution levels differ significantly between males and females.

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What Motivates Farmers’ Adaptation to Climate Change? The Case of Apple Farmers of Shaanxi in China

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Past studies showing that barriers to farmers' adaptation behaviors are focused on their socio-economic factors and resource availability. Meanwhile, psychological and social considerations are sparingly mentioned, especially for the related studies in developing countries. This study investigates the impact of psychological factors and social appraisal on farmers' behavioral intention to adopt adaptation measures for the aforementioned reason, due to climate change and not to anthropogenic climate change. Drawing on the protection motivation theory, a threat, coping, social appraisal, maladaptation and behavioral intention to adopt adaptation measures (TCSMBI) model was proposed to predict farmers' adaptation. A structural equation model was then employed to analyze the relationships between variables in the TCSMBI model with 658 apple farmers in Shaanxi province, China. The empirical results showed that threat appraisal and coping appraisal have positive and significant impacts on behavioral intention to climate change. Moreover, threat appraisal reduces the occurrence of maladaptation, and social appraisal tends to have significantly positive impacts on threat appraisal and coping appraisal.

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Introduction to the Special Issue on the Economics of Climate Change Impacts on Developing Countries: Selected Studies on Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

Ghana Country Environmental Analysis

Ghana Country Environmental Analysis

Public disclosure for carbon abatement: African decision-makers in a PROPER public good experiment

What Motivates Farmers’ Adaptation to Climate Change? The Case of Apple Farmers of Shaanxi in China

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