Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change: Economic Impacts and Adaptation Policies

Susana Ferreira

Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2024, vol. 16, issue 1, 207-231

Abstract: This article reviews the literature on the economic impacts of disasters caused by extreme weather and climate events to draw lessons on how societies can better manage these risks. While evidence that richer, better-governed societies suffer less and recover faster from climate extremes suggests adaptation, knowledge gaps remain, and little is known about the efficiency of specific adaptation actions. I review various “no or low” regrets adaptation options that are recommended when uncertainties over climate change impacts are high. I discuss how governments can play an important role in adaptation by directly providing public goods to manage disaster risks or by facilitating private agents’ adaptation responses but also highlight the political economy of policy and coordination failures.

Keywords: climate extremes; climate change policy; natural disasters; risk management; climate adaptation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I30 O13 O44 Q54 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1146/annurev-resource-101623-095314

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