Managing Climate Change in Coastal Megacities / Gestion des changements climatiques dans les mégapoles côtières

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    Coastal cities at risk (CCaR) : building adaptive capacity for managing climate change in coastal megacities
    (2017-07) McBean, Gordon; Cooper, Richard; Joakim, Erin
    The CCaR project has contributed significantly to the development of strategies and methodologies for climate change adaptation (CCA). In cities, assistance in the development of disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies based on knowledge generated from the project has been provided. In Vancouver region, information for adaptation planning in municipalities was provided; contributing to the flagship Adaptation Strategy formulated by the City of Vancouver and passed by Council. Working groups have been established in Vancouver and Bangkok Metropolitan Administration. In Metro Manila, systems thinking about climate change adaptation have been mainstreamed in national and local government processes through specific policy instruments in collaboration with the all-levels of government, the military, regional scientific groups like UNISDR-ASTAAG and private sector partners such as the Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation and Partnerships for Climate and Disaster Resilience. The development of the City Resilience Systems Dynamic Model (CRS) over the course of the project is providing a new methodology for quantifying the relationships between climate impacts, socio-economic implications, and the development of adaptation strategies that will be applied to all case study cities, now and in future.
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    Building resilience
    (Research Media, 2013) McBean, Gordon
    Professor Gordon McBean, current Board Chair of SysTem for Analysis, Research and Training (START) talks candidly of the Coastal Cities at Risk (CCaR) project and how resilience can be forged for vulnerable regions. The CCaR project will develop the knowledge base and enhance capacity of mega-cities to successfully adapt to and cope with risks posed by the effects of climate change, including sea level rise. “One of the outcomes will be a cadre of new scientists who through their own research and teaching will extend the research to other areas,” McBean concludes.
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    Essays on international and environmental economics
    (University of Western Ontario, 2012-09) Wibe, Jacob
    This thesis consists of three chapters employing quantitative open economy models to study international trade transmission, the economic impacts of climate change, and remittance transfers. The first chapter examines the role of production sharing and trade in the transmission of the 2008-2009 recession. In the model, production sharing is represented by a tradable sector that produces a composite good exclusively for the foreign market. The results suggest that trade transmission can account for 72% of the fall in output in Canada, 19% of the fall in output in Mexico, and about two-thirds of the fall in trade for both countries. The counterfactual experiments find that production sharing can account for about 40% of the fall in international trade, and 12% of the fall in output. The second chapter quantifies the net economic impact of climate change and climate change policy on the Canadian economy. We combine a small open economy model of Canada with the ANEMI model, an integrated assessment model developed at Western University. We find that while a carbon tax that holds the stock of global emissions below the 550 ppm level would yield positive net benefits for the world economy, the impact of such a tax on the Canadian economy would be negative. (Joint with Jim MacGee and Jim Davies). The third chapter examines the impact of remittance transfers on the allocation of productive factors across sectors in Latin American and Caribbean countries. It extends a two-sector open economy model to include an endogenous migration decision. Key findings are that net recipients of remittance payments experience a reallocation of productive factors from the tradable sector to the non-tradable sector, and that the benefit from remittance inflows is lower for countries which have a relatively less productive non-tradable sector.
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    Enhancing adaptation to climate change by integrating climate risk into long-term development plans and disaster management : final report
    (Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research, 2012) Patankar, Archana; Patwardhan, Anand; Marome, Wijitbusaba Ann; Porio, Emma
    The project objective is to identify and measure the short to medium-term impacts and responses to extreme weather events, as well as policy implications for long-term adaptive capacity and development planning for the cities of Mumbai, Bangkok, and Manila. The project includes analysis of primary and secondary data to measure the physical, economic and social losses in the case study cities. Also examined are responses from the local government and citizens to understand better how to enhance the adaptation capacity of the cities in coping with flooding and other future weather events.
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    Impacts of extreme weather events and implications for adaptation planning for coastal cities
    (Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN), 2013) Patankar, Archana; Patwardhan, Anand; Marome, Wijitbusaba; Porio, Emma
    This paper describes research undertaken in three coastal cities of Asia: Mumbai, Bangkok, and Manila, to assess physical, economic and social impacts of massive floods and impacts of extreme weather events in these cities. The focus is on estimating uninsured losses – which normally are not accounted for. Survey information has been supplemented with secondary data to identify damage to property and infrastructure, damage to stocks such as physical capital and inventory, and indirect impacts on investment, employment and disruption of essential services. The findings have significant policy implications for integrating adaptation strategies for coastal cities.