Economy-Wide Impacts of Climate Change: A Joint Analysis for Sea Level Rise and Tourism

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Andrea Bigano

RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment; CMCC - Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici; Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Francesco Bosello

University of Milan - Department of Economics, Business and Statistics; CMCC - Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici

Roberto Roson

Ca Foscari University of Venice - Dipartimento di Economia; Bocconi University - IEFE Centre for Research on Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy; Loyola Andalucia University

Richard S. J. Tol

The Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin; Institute for Environmental Studies, Free University Amsterdam

Date Written: November 2006

Abstract

While climate change impacts on human life have well defined and different origins, the interactions among the diverse impacts are not yet fully understood. Their final effects, however, especially those involving social-economic responses, are likely to play an important role. This paper is one of the first attempts to disentangle and highlight the role of these interactions. It focuses on the economic assessment of two specific climate change impacts: sea-level rise and changes in tourism flows. By using a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model the two impacts categories are first analysed separately and then jointly. Considered separately, in 2050, the forecasted 25 cm. of sea level rise imply a GDP loss ranging from (-) 0.1% in South East Asia to almost no loss in Canada, while redistribution of tourism flows - which in terms of arrivals favours Western Europe, Japan, Korea and Canada and penalises all the other world regions - triggers GDP losses ranging from (-) 0.5% in Small Island States to (-) 0.0004% in Canada. GDP gainers are Australia, New Zealand, Western Europe, Middle East and South Asia.

Keywords: Climate change, Sea level rise, Tourism, Computable General Equilibrium Models

JEL Classification: C68, D58, Q25

Suggested Citation

Bigano, Andrea and Bosello, Francesco and Roson, Roberto and Tol, Richard S. J., Economy-Wide Impacts of Climate Change: A Joint Analysis for Sea Level Rise and Tourism (November 2006). University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Dept. of Economics Research Paper Series No. 06/WP/2008, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1105271 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1105271

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