Determinants, outcomes, and feedbacks associated with microeconomic adaptation to climate change
Bartelet, Henry A., Barnes, Michele L., and Cumming, Graeme S. (2022) Determinants, outcomes, and feedbacks associated with microeconomic adaptation to climate change. Regional Environmental Change, 22 (2). 59.
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Abstract
Actors across all economic sectors of society will need to adapt to cope with the accelerating impacts of climate change. However, little information is currently available about how microeconomic actors are adapting to climate change and how best to support these adaptations. We reviewed the empirical literature to provide an overview of (1) the climate change adaptations that have been undertaken in practice by microeconomic actors (i.e. households and firms) and their determinants; and (2) the outcomes of these adaptations and the manner in which public policies have supported them. About a quarter of actors across the studies included in our review took no adaptation measures to climate change. Of those that did, the most commonly identified determinant of adaptation was assets, which were predominantly discussed as facilitating diversification within livelihoods. Few (14 out of 80) of the studies we reviewed which described empirical climate change adaptations evaluated the outcomes of these adaptations. Of those that did, evidence suggests that conflicts exist between the microeconomic outcomes of adaptations, social and environmental externalities, and long-term resilience. Different public policy interventions intended to support adaptation were discussed (57 in total); the provision of informational support was the most prevalent (33%). Our analysis suggests that microeconomic adaptation occurs as a cycle in which social and ecological feedbacks positively or negatively influence the adaptation process. Thus, efforts to facilitate adaptation are more likely to be effective if they recognize the role of feedbacks and the potential diversity of outcomes triggered by public policy incentives.
| Item ID: | 73779 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1436-3798 |
| Keywords: | Climate change adaptation, Adaptive capacity, Social-ecological systems, Microeconomics, Agriculture |
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| Research Data: | https://research.jcu.edu.au/data/published/47bf4c50a36f11edb22c156e754c4bda |
| Date Deposited: | 11 May 2022 08:34 |
| FoR Codes: | 38 ECONOMICS > 3801 Applied economics > 380105 Environment and resource economics @ 20% 44 HUMAN SOCIETY > 4499 Other human society > 449999 Other human society not elsewhere classified @ 20% 41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > 4101 Climate change impacts and adaptation > 410103 Human impacts of climate change and human adaptation @ 60% |
| SEO Codes: | 19 ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND NATURAL HAZARDS > 1901 Adaptation to climate change > 190101 Climate change adaptation measures (excl. ecosystem) @ 60% 28 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 2801 Expanding knowledge > 280111 Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciences @ 20% 15 ECONOMIC FRAMEWORK > 1505 Microeconomics > 150599 Microeconomics not elsewhere classified @ 20% |
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