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| Climate damages: Climate damages refer to the adverse effects caused by climate change, encompassing ecological, economic, and social harm. These include extreme weather events, sea-level rise, ecosystem disruptions, agricultural losses, property damage, health impacts, displacement of communities, and disruptions to infrastructure. Quantifying and addressing these damages are critical in assessing the true costs of climate change and implementing effective mitigation strategies. See also Climate change, Climate costs, Climate data._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Ricardian Theory on Climate Damages - Dictionary of Arguments
Norgaard I 184 Climate Damages/Climate Change/Ricardian Studies: A series of studies have been conducted measuring damages around the world. For example, Ricardian studies have been done to select countries: Brazil and India (Sanghi and Mendelsohn 2008)(1); Sri Lanka (Seo et al. 2005)(2), Israel (Fleischer et al. 2008)(3), Germany (Lippert et al. 2009)(4) and China (Wang et al. 2009)(5). The Ricardian studies examine farm performance (net revenue or land value) across climate zones. By comparing farms in one climate zone to another, one can see what effect climate has on farm outcomes. These studies confirmed that low‐latitude agriculture was vulnerable to warming but high‐latitude agriculture would benefit. Cf. >Emission permits, >Emission reduction credits, >Emission targets, >Emissions, >Emissions trading, >Climate change, >Climate damage, >Energy policy, >Clean Energy Standards, >Climate data, >Climate history, >Climate justice, >Climate periods, >Climate targets, >Climate impact research, >Carbon price, >Carbon price coordination, >Carbon price strategies, >Carbon tax, >Carbon tax strategies. 1. Sanghi, A., and Mendelsohn, R. 2008. The impacts of global warming on farmers in Brazil and India. Global Environmental Change 18: 655–65. 2. Seo, N. and Munasinghe, M. 2005. Climate change impacts on agriculture in Sri Lanka. Environment and Development Economics 10: 581–96. 3. Fleischer, A., Lichtman, I., and Mendelsohn, R. 2008. Climate change, irrigation, and Israeli agriculture: Will warming be harmful? Ecological Economics 67: 109–16. 4. Lippert, C., Krimly, T., and Aurbacher, J. 2009. A Ricardian analysis of the impact of climate change on agriculture in Germany. Climatic Change 97: 593–610. 5. Wang, J., Mendelsohn, R., Dinar, A., Huang, J., Rozelle, S., and Zhang L. 2009. The impact of climate change on China's agriculture. Agricultural Economics 40: 323–37. Mendelsohn, Robert: “Economic Estimates of the Damages Caused by Climate Change”, In: John S. Dryzek, Richard B. Norgaard, David Schlosberg (eds.) (2011): The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Ricardian Theory Norgaard I Richard Norgaard John S. Dryzek The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society Oxford 2011 |
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