Climate change is projected to set back economic growth in South Asia unless governments, firms and households can adapt to it. This adaptation can happen in many ways, including investment in more resilient infrastructure and technologies, strengthening of disaster preparedness, or labor movements across space or sectors. A small but rapidly growing body of economic research is studying how climate change adaptation occurs, what impacts it has and which factors impede it. By bringing together academics and practitioners, the workshop will help synthesize emerging policy and operational lessons from this research, while also identifying main knowledge gaps where more research is urgently needed to address adaptation challenges in South Asia and beyond.
The topics of papers to be presented include:
- How do firms and households adapt to a changing climate?
- What gender differences are there in the socio-economic impacts of climate change and what constraints do women face in adapting to climate change?
- How much of the damage from climate-related shocks can be recouped by adaptation? What are the limits of individual adaptation?
- How can power and transport infrastructure be made more resilient while improving access to energy and markets?
- What are the tradeoffs between different adaptation mechanisms?
- How can government policies and public investment best facilitate private adaptation?
The workshop will focus on research from South Asia and similar contexts.
Organizing committee: Achyuta Adhvaryu and Teevrat Garg (UC San Diego). Jonah M. Rexer, Siddharth Sharma and Margaret Triyana (World Bank).
