Adapting to Climate Change: Costs, Benefits, and Modelling Approaches

Shardul Agrawala, Francesco Bosello, Carlo Carraro (), Enrica De Cian () and Elisa Lanzi

International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, 2011, vol. 5, issue 3, 245-284

Abstract: This paper provides a summary and a critical survey of the methodologies and results of the literature on the economics of adaptation. We divide the literature into two broad areas of research. First, we examine the studies that analyse adaptation from a bottom-up perspective. Second, we introduce the studies that examine adaptation using a top-down approach. The first group of studies investigates cost and benefits of adaptation at the sectoral, regional and global level. The second group includes theoretical literature on the relationship between mitigation and adaptation as well as emerging insights from some global Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs), which have recently been extended to include adaptation as an alternative and complementary policy option to mitigation.

Keywords: Adaptation; Climate change; Climate change policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q54 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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