The Economic Impact of Sea-level Rise on Nonmarket Lands in Singapore

Ng, Wei-Shiuen; Mendelsohn, Robert

doi:10.1579/05-a-076.1

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“…However, unintended spillover impacts from adaptation can occur. For example, tourism may significantly suffer if sea walls are built along the beaches (Ng and Mendelsohn 2006). Last, policy makers need to consider the provision of health services, food, sanitation, and water during and after a storm surge event.…”

Section: Adaptation Strategies To Storm Surgesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is Tropical Cyclone Surge, Not Intensity, What Kills So Many People in South Asia?

Seo¹,

Bakkensen

2017

Weather, Climate, and Society

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This paper statistically examines the hypothesis that the level of storm surge, not storm intensity, is primarily responsible for the large number of tropical cyclone fatalities in South Asia. Because the potential causal link between intensity and surge can confound statistical inference, the authors develop two fatality models using different assumptions on the relationship between storm surge and intensity. The authors find evidence that storm surge is a primary killer of people in South Asia relative to storm intensity. In a surgepressure independence model, it is found that a 10-cm increase in storm surge results in a 14% increase in the number of fatalities. In a surge-pressure dependence model, a 10-cm increase in the level of surge not driven by minimum central pressure (MCP) leads to 9.9% increase in the number of fatalities. By contrast, a one-millibar (1 hPa) decrease in MCP leads to a 7.3% increase in the number of fatalities, some of which is also attributable to storm surge. In South Asia, adaptation strategies should target a higher level of storm surge instead of higher-intensity storms. Policies to combat surge include permanent relocation, temporary evacuation, changes in building structures, and coastal fortification.

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Section: Adaptation Strategies To Storm Surgesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is Tropical Cyclone Surge, Not Intensity, What Kills So Many People in South Asia?

Seo¹,

Bakkensen

2017

Weather, Climate, and Society

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“…Such effects, however, have received relatively little attention in the literature and few city based studies have been undertaken. An exception is that for Singapore (Ng and Mendelsohn 2006) which estimated the economic impact of sea-level rise on land that bears no market prices, including beaches, marshes and mangroves, using non-market monetary valuation techniques. They find that local inhabitants attach considerable value to beaches and natural resources, and that protecting such land, whilst found to have sizeable costs, and being potentially harmful to some natural resources, is justified on the grounds of economic efficiency.…”

Section: Other Impactsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate change impacts and adaptation in cities: a review of the literature

2010

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Many of the decisions relating to future urban development require information on climate change risks to cities This review of the academic and "grey" literature provides an overview assessment of the state of the art in the quantification and valuation of climate risks at the city-scale. We find that whilst a small number of cities, mostly in OECD countries, have derived quantitative estimates of the costs of climate change risks under alternative scenarios, this form of analysis is in its infancy. The climate risks most frequently addressed in existing studies are associated with sea-level rise, health and water resources. Other sectors such as energy, transport, and built infrastructure remain less studied. The review has also undertaken a case study to examine the progress in two cities-London and New York-which are relatively advanced in the assessment of climate risks and adaptation. The case studies show that these cities have benefited from stakeholder engagement at an early stage in their risk assessments. They have also benefited from the development of specific institutional responsibilities for co-ordinating such research from the outset. This involvement has been critical in creating momentum and obtaining resources for subsequent in-depth analysis of sectoral impacts and adaptation needs..While low cost climate down-scaling applications would be useful in future research, the greatest priority is to develop responses that can work within the high future uncertainty of future climate change, to build resilience and maintain flexibility. This can best be used within the context of established risk management practices. A. Hunt (B)

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“…On the other hand, adaptation research over the past two decades has reported high potential and observed net benefits of adaptation strategies and measures to global warming in natural resource intensive industries (Seo and Mendelsohn ; Seo , , , ), in sea level rises (Yohe and Schlesinger ; Ng and Mendelsohn ), in heat‐related or cold‐related fatalities (Barreca et al ), and in extreme events such as tropical cyclone‐caused fatalities (Seo ; Seo and Bakkensen ). In many world regions, adaptation will make harmful effects of global warming much less severe.…”

Section: Future Directions Of Global Warming Negotiationsmentioning

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Beyond the Paris Agreement: Climate change policy negotiations and future directions

Seo¹

2017

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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At the conclusion of the Paris conference, this paper provides a review of the history of international negotiations on global warming for the past three decades with an emphasis on details of Paris agreements. Founding documents of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are reviewed. Major outcomes as well as conflicts on the stringency of global mitigation efforts observed from the series of Conferences of the Parties (COP) since 1992 are explained: Rio Earth Summit, Kyoto Protocol, Copenhagen Accord, Cancun Agreement, Durban Platform, and Paris Agreement. The development of the financial instrument called the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the tensions among the parties on the fund are reviewed. The paper describes the current states of the global negotiations on various fronts at the aftermath of the Paris COP. The paper concludes by putting forth future directions of the negotiations and the ideal policies that can be agreed upon at the international level, which focus on adaptation, technologies, incentives, and exchanges.JEL classification: Q12, Q54

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The Economic Impact of Sea-level Rise on Nonmarket Lands in Singapore

Cited by 23 publications

References 10 publications

Is Tropical Cyclone Surge, Not Intensity, What Kills So Many People in South Asia?

Is Tropical Cyclone Surge, Not Intensity, What Kills So Many People in South Asia?

Climate change impacts and adaptation in cities: a review of the literature

Beyond the Paris Agreement: Climate change policy negotiations and future directions

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