Flood Impacts on Agriculture under Climate Change: The case of the Awanui Catchment, New Zealand

Utkur Djanibekov (), Maksym Polyakov, Heather Craig () and Ryan Paulik ()
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Utkur Djanibekov: Economic Modelling and Policy Analysis Group, Agroscope
Heather Craig: University of Canterbury
Ryan Paulik: National Institute of Weather and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, 2024, vol. 8, issue 2, No 4, 283-316

Abstract: Abstract We assess the economic and environmental impacts on agriculture of flooding under projected climate change, including land-use change as an adaption response to floods. Our case study area is the Awanui catchment located in the far north of New Zealand, where flooding is a significant hazard. The study uses an integrated approach and combines spatial information on agricultural exposure and damage from flooding, economic land-use modelling, and valuation approaches. We analyse direct tangible and direct intangible flood impacts under various extents, frequencies, and water depth levels. Our results show areas with flood exposure and damage costs increase with projected climate change. As an adaptation measure to reduce flood damage costs, pastoral farms convert to other land uses, mainly to unfarmed land. Flooding reduces the net revenue for the catchment, while it can result in some reduction of environmental pollution. When the probability of all possible flood events are considered, the value of the changes in greenhouse gas emissions are equivalent to approximately 18% of the change in total net revenue, while the value of changes in other environmental outputs is equivalent to less than 1% of the change in total net revenue. Based on this study, the assessment of various flood impacts and adaptation responses to them can help to develop resilience strategies for the agricultural sector to future climate-induced flooding.

Keywords: Climate change adaptation; Flood risk; Integrated analysis; Natural disasters; Tangible impacts; Intangible impacts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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