Economics of climate change mitigation and adaptation: moving from impact assessment to vulnerability Online publication date: Sat, 16-Aug-2014
by Sibananda Senapati; Vijaya Gupta
Interdisciplinary Environmental Review (IER), Vol. 13, No. 2/3, 2012
Abstract: The article is based on a detailed literature review pertaining to conceptual and methodological issues of climate change impact and vulnerability assessment. The impact of climate change differs among geographical regions owing to the abject difference in the levels of income, production and consumption pattern, availability and use of technology, etc. The initial impact assessment studies, which were based on estimating economic costs of climate change, were limited to a certain extent in finding the diverse impacts at different regions. There are a number of measurement constraints in terms of scientific and economic uncertainties. Further, for a long time, the mitigation policy approach has received major academic attention in the climate change policy literature, whereas the adaptation approach is only entertained while conducting vulnerability assessment. Vulnerability assessment on the other hand is integrated in nature, covering a large research domain from risk hazard literature to poverty literature.
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