Economy-Wide Estimates of the Implications of Climate Change: Human Health

By Francesco Bosello, Roberto Roson, Richard S. J. Tol. 2006

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We study the economic impacts of climate-change-induced change in human health, viz. cardiovascular and respiratory disorders, diarrhoea, malaria, dengue fever and schistosomiasis. Changes in morbidity and mortality are interpreted as changes in labour productivity and demand for health care, and used to shock the GTAP-E computable general equilibrium model, calibrated for the year 2050. GDP, welfare and investment fall (rise) in regions with net negative (positive) health impacts. Prices, production, and terms of trade show a mixed pattern. Direct cost estimates, common in climate change impact studies, underestimate the true welfare losses.

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A Review of the Stern Review (2006, background): “They are estimates of change in welfare and not estimates of changes in income (cf. Bosello et al., 2006, forthcoming; Berrittella et al., 2006); moreover, they are regional average estimates, with little information on small spatial scales let alone income classes.”
Adaptation, Mitigation and 'Green' R&D to Combat Global Climate Change - Insights from an Empirical Integrated Assessment Exercise (2008, methodology): “comes from extrapolations from Tol (1998) survey, Bosello et al. (2006) and Bosello et al. (2007)”
Investment Needs to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals Understanding the Billions and Trillions (2015, background): “Climate-induced changes in disease vectors and food availability will also affect the burden of disease, particularly from vector- and water-borne diseases, such as malaria, dengue fever, schistosomiasis, and diarrhea (Bosello et al. 2006, Watts et al. 2015).”
Why Worry about Climate Change? A Research Agenda (2008, background): “Bosello et al. (2004) and Darwin and Tol (2001) show that sea level rise would change production and consumption in countries that are not directly affected.”
Climate change impacts and adaptation in cities: a review of the literature (2011, background): “The literature includes wide ranging studies on impacts and economic costs, e.g. Nicholls and Klein (2003), Tol (2002), Deke (2002), Bosello et al (2006), Yohe et al (2006).”