Climate change and agriculture in Sri Lanka (Record no. 50664)

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Universal Decimal Classification number CD - 64 (EBSCO CD)
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Personal name Seo, Sung-no niggol
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Title Climate change and agriculture in Sri Lanka
Remainder of title a Ricardian valuation
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Summary, etc This paper measures climate change impacts on Sri Lankan agriculture using the Ricardian method. The model examines the net revenue per hectare of the four most important crops in the country. The limited range of temperature variation allows only a simple test of temperature impacts, but the greater range of precipitation across the country distinguishes more complex precipitation effects. We then examine the impacts of the climate predictions of five AOGCM models and two simple uniform change scenarios for Sri Lanka. The impacts of rainfall increases are predicted to be beneficial to the country as a whole in all five AOGCM scenarios, but temperature increases are predicted to be harmful. Nationally, the impacts vary from –11 billion rupees (− 20 per cent) to + 39 billion rupees (+72 per cent) depending on the climate scenarios. With warming,
the already dry regions (the Northern and Eastern provinces), are expected to lose large portions of their current agriculture, but the cooler regions (the central highlands), are predicted to remain the same or increase their output. The paper reconfirms that climate change damages could be large in tropical developing countries, but highly dependent on the actual climate scenario.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Sri Lanka
-- Agriculture
-- AOGCM
-- Developing countries
-- Climate change
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Personal name Mendelsohn, Robert
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        Library Library Pamphlet Section 1997-01-01 0.00 CD - 64 (EBSCO CD) P3732 ftp://ftp.ips.lk/ebooks/Pamphlets/Agriculture/ClimateChangeAgricultureSriLanka.pdf Electronic Media