Economic impacts of climate change and climate change adaptation strategies in Vanuatu and Timor-Leste

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.donorAsian Development Banken
cg.coverage.countryTimor-Leste
cg.coverage.countryVanuatu
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2TL
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2VU
cg.coverage.regionSouth-eastern Asia
cg.coverage.regionMelanesia
cg.creator.identifierMark Rosegrant: 0000-0001-6371-6127
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2015.12.010en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Environment and Production Technology Division
cg.identifier.publicationRankA
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn0308-597Xen
cg.journalMarine Policyen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.volume67en
dc.contributor.authorRosegrant, Mark W.en
dc.contributor.authorDey, Madan M.en
dc.contributor.authorValmonte-Santos, Rowenaen
dc.contributor.authorChen, Oai Lien
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-21T09:22:58Zen
dc.date.available2024-06-21T09:22:58Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/147512
dc.titleEconomic impacts of climate change and climate change adaptation strategies in Vanuatu and Timor-Lesteen
dcterms.abstractThe fisheries sectors in Vanuatu and Timor-Leste are important sources of food and income. Similar to other developing countries and those in the Pacific, they are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change more so because of their geographic location, socioeconomic conditions and political instability. Nonetheless, there are approaches to alleviate the damaging effects of climate change in the region's fisheries sector. Using economic modeling, this paper estimates the economic costs of potential climate change adaptation strategies for the fisheries sector in Vanuatu and Timor-Leste through assessment of alternative future scenarios. Strategies include aquaculture development, natural resource management through establishment and/or expansion of marine protected areas, and deployment of low-cost inshore fish aggregating devices. Modeling results demonstrate that the above innovations will enable the two countries to significantly improve coastal and freshwater fish production in the medium-term (2035) and long-term (2050). Fish consumption is projected to grow due to population and income improvements; yet considerable increases in production will augment demand. Furthermore, national-level gains are projected from these adaptation strategies through fish exports. Improved production under climate change will require significant investments from the national governments of Vanuatu and Timor-Leste and/or private sectors.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationRosegrant, Mark W.; Dey, Madan M.; Valmonte-Santos, Rowena; and Chen, Oai Li. 2016. Economic impacts of climate change and climate change adaptation strategies in Vanuatu and Timor-Leste. Marine Policy 67(2016): 179 - 188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2015.12.010en
dcterms.extentpp. 179-188en
dcterms.issued2016-01-29
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherElsevieren
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/5252en
dcterms.subjectaggregate dataen
dcterms.subjectnatural resources managementen
dcterms.subjectaquacultureen
dcterms.subjecteconometric modelsen
dcterms.subjectfishen
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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