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The overall objective of this study is to assess — in monetary terms — thepotential damage associated with the impacts of climate change due to the greenhouse effect in Israel. The socioeconomic impacts will affect water esources, agricultural production, biodiversity resources, forestry resources, coastal regions (due to sea level rise), tourism, health levels, and population migration due to desertification and related phenomena. Damage are estimated for a future point in the 21st Century when CO2 levels in the atmosphere will double from pre-industrial levels. This is a common reference benchmark in the literature, given that there is still a great deal of uncertainty regarding which of the global greenhouse gases (GHG) emission scenarios will actually materialize. There is a widespread tendency in the literature, however, to associate this doubling with the period 2030–2050. The study aims to sum-up damage by sectors, employing the “Bottom-up” approach, assuming present or (when possible) forecasted technological know-how. This is in contrast to the “Top-down” approach that is based on econometric and macroeconomic models.
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Shechter, M., Yehoshua, N. (2002). Exploratory economic assessments of climate change impacts in Israel: Agriculture. In: Beniston, M. (eds) Climatic Change: Implications for the Hydrological Cycle and for Water Management. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47983-4_20
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