The distributional impact of climate change on rich and poor countries

Environment and Development Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 159-178

  Mendelsohn, Robert ^a   Dinar, Ariel ^b   Williams, Larry ^c  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

^c ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645135987     PISSN: 1355770X     EISSN: 14697998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355770X05002755     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Adams, R., B. McCarl, K. Segerson, C. Rosenzweig, K. Bryant, B. Dixon, R. Conner, R. Evenson, and D. Ojima (1999), 'The economic effect of climate change on US agriculture', in R. Mendelsohn and J. Neumann (eds), The Economic Impact of Climate Change on the United States Economy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2. Arrow, K., W. Cline, K.-G. Maler, M. Munasinghe, R. Squitteri, and J.E. Stiglitz. (1996), 'Intertemporal equity, discounting, and economic efficiency', in J. Bruce, H. Lee, and E. Haites (eds), Climate Change 1995. Economic and Social Dimensions of Climate Change, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 125-144.
3. Azar, C. (1999), 'Weight factors in cost-benefit analysis of climate change', Environmental and Resource Economics 13: 249-268.
4. Barro, R.J. (1997), Determinants of Economic Growth, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
5. Barro, R.J. and X. Sala-i-Martin (2004), Economic Growth, 2nd edn, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
6. Bloom, D. and J. Sachs (1999), 'Geography, demography, and economic growth in Africa', Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1998 2: 207-273.
7. Boer, G., G. Flato, and D. Ramsden (2000), 'A transient climate change simulation with greenhouse gas and aerosol forcing: Projected climate for the 21st century', Climate Dynamics 16: 427-450.
8. Easterly, W. and R. Devine (1998), 'Africa's growth tragedy: Policies and ethnic divisions', Quarterly Journal of Economics 112: 1203-1250.
9. Emori, S., T. Nozawa, A. Abe-Ouchi, A. Namaguti, and M. Kimoto (1999), 'Coupled ocean-atmospheric model experiments of future climate change with an explicit representation of sulphate aerosol scattering', Journal Meteorological Society Japan 77: 1299-1307.
10. Fankhauser, S. (1995), Valuing Climate Change: The Economics of the Greenhouse, London: Earthscan.
11. Fankhauser, S., R.S.J. Tol, and D.W. Pearce (1997), 'The aggregation of climate change damages: A welfare theoretic approach', Environmental and Resource Economics 10: 249-266.
12. Houghton, J. T., L.G. Meira Filho, J. Bruce, H. Lee, B.A. Callander, E. Haites, N. Harris, and K. Maskell (eds) (1994), Climate Change 1994: Radiative Forcing of Climate Change and an Evaluation of the IPCC IS92 Emission Scenarios, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 339 pp.
13. Houghton, J., Y. Ding, D. Griggs, M. Noguer, P. van der Linden, X. Dai, K. Maskell, and C. Johnson (eds) (2001), Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis. Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
14. Hurd, B., M. Callaway, J. Smith, and P. Kirshen (1999), 'Economic effects of climate change on US water resources', in R. Mendelsohn and J. Neumann (eds), The Economic Impact of Climate Change on the United States Economy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
15. Jepma, C. et al. (1996), 'A generic assessment of response options', in J. Bruce, H. Lee, and E. Haites (eds), Climate Change 1995: Economic and Social Dimensions of Climate Change, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 225-262.
16. Kurukurasuriya, P. and S. Rosenthal (2003), Climate Change and Agriculture: A Review of Impacts and Adaptations, Climate Change Series, 91, Agriculture and Rural Development Department and Environment Department Joint Publication, Washington DC: The World Bank.
17. McCarthy, J., O. Canziani, N. Leary, D. Dokken, and K. White (eds) (2001), Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
18. Mendelsohn, R. (ed.) (2001), Global Warming and the American Economy: A Regional Analysis, Camberley, Surrey: Edward Elgar Publishing.
19. Mendelsohn, R., A. Dinar, and A. Sanghi (2001), 'The effect of development on the climate sensitivity of agriculture', Environment and Development Economics 6: 85-101.
20. Mendelsohn, R., W. Morrison, M. Schlesinger, and N. Adronova (2000a), 'Country-specific market impacts from climate change', Climatic Change 45: 553-569.
21. Mendelsohn, R. and J. Neumann (eds) (1999), The Impact of Climate Change on the United States Economy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
22. Mendelsohn, R., W. Nordhaus, and D. Shaw (1994), 'Measuring the impact of global warming on agriculture', American Economic Review 84: 753-771.
23. Mendelsohn, R. and M. Schlesinger (1999), 'Climate response functions', Ambio 28: 362-366.
24. Mendelsohn, R., M. Schlesinger, and L. Williams (2000b), 'Comparing impacts across climate models', Integrated Assessment 1: 37-48.
25. Mendelsohn, R. and L. Williams (2001), 'Assessing the market damages from climate change', in J. Griffin (ed.), Global Climate Change: The Science, Economics, and Politics, Camberley, Surrey: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 92-113.
26. Neumann, J. and N. Livesay (2001), 'Coastal structures: Dynamic economic modeling', in R. Mendelsohn (ed.), Global Warming and the American Economy: A Regional Analysis, Camberley, Surrey: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 132-148.
27. Ng, W. and R. Mendelsohn (2005), 'The impact of sea-level rise on Singapore', Environment and Development Economics 10: 201-215.
28. Nordhaus, W. (1991), 'To slow or not to slow: The economics of the greenhouse effect', The Economic Journal 101: 920-937.
29. Pearce, D., W. Cline, A. Achanta, S. Fankhauser, R. Pachauri, R. Tol, and P. Vellinga. (1996), 'The social cost of climate change: Greenhouse damage and the benefits of control', in J. Bruce, H. Lee, and E. Haites (eds), Climate Change 1995. Economic and Social Dimensions of Climate Change, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 179-224.
30. Pearce, D. (2003), 'The social cost of carbon and its policy implications', Oxford Review of Economic Policy 19: 362-384.
31. Reilly, J. et al. (1996), 'Agriculture in a changing climate: Impacts and adaptations', in IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), R. Watson, M. Zinyowera, R. Moss, and D. Dokken (eds), Climate Change 1995. Impacts, Adaptations, and Mitigation of Climate Change: Scientific-Technical Analyses, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 427-468.
32. Rosenzweig, C. and M. Parry (1994), 'Potential impact of climate change on world food supply', Nature 367: 133-138.
33. Schelling, T. (1992), 'Some economics of global warming', American Economic Review 82: 1-14.
34. Smith, J. and D. Tirpak (1990), The Potential Effects of Global Climate Change on the United States: Report to Congress, US, Washington DC: Environmental Protection Agency.
35. Sohngen, B., R. Mendelsohn, and R. Sedjo (2002), 'A global model of climate change impacts on timber markets', Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 26: 326-343.
36. Solow, R. (1956), 'A contribution to the theory of economic growth', Quarterly Journal of Economics 70: 65-94.
37. Tol, R. (1995), 'The damage costs of climate change: Towards more comprehensive estimates', Environmental and Resource Economics 5: 353-374.
38. Tol, R. (2001), 'Equitable cost-benefit analysis of climate change policies', Ecological Economics 36: 71-85.
39. Tol, R. (2002), 'Estimates of the damage costs of climate change. Part 1: Benchmark estimates', Environmental and Resource Economics 21: 47-73.
40. Washington, W., J. Weatherly, G. Meehl, A. Semmer, T. Bettge, A. Craig, W. Strand, J. Arblaster, V. Wayland, R. James, and Y. Zhang (2000), 'Parallel climate model (PCM): Control and transient simulations', Climate Dynamics 16: 755-774.
41. Williams, L., D. Shaw, and R. Mendelsohn (1998), 'Evaluating GCM output with impact models', Climatic Change 39: 111-133.
42. World Bank Group (2002), 'World Development Indicators 2002', www.worldbank.org/data/wdi2002/.