Adaptation to Climate Change

Tamma Carleton, Esther Duflo, B. Kelsey Jack and Guglielmo Zappalà

No 33264, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Mounting costs of anthropogenic climate change reveal that adaptation will be essential to human well-being in coming decades. At the same time, the literature on the economics of adaptation offers relatively little guidance for emerging policy. In this chapter, we review the existing literature, focusing on how it can better inform adaptation policy design and implementation. A simple conceptual model of adaptation decision-making describes two core adaptation channels that we link to two streams of adaptation literature, which have emerged largely in parallel. We outline how insights from these literatures can be used for adaptation policy evaluation, highlight key limitations of and opportunities for public intervention in private adaptation markets, and provide guidance for future work.

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Date: 2024-12
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