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Climate Change Impacts on Rural Poverty in Low-Elevation Coastal Zones / Barbier, Edward B.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Barbier, Edward B.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climate changes.
- Coastal & marine environment.
- Coastal countries.
- Coastal zone.
- Environment.
- Health, nutrition and population.
- Macroeconomics and economic growth.
- Population policies.
- Poverty reduction.
- Rural development.
- Rural poverty.
- Rural poverty reduction.
- Water resources.
- Wetlands.
- Local Subjects:
- Climate changes.
- Coastal & marine environment.
- Coastal countries.
- Coastal zone.
- Environment.
- Health, nutrition and population.
- Macroeconomics and economic growth.
- Population policies.
- Poverty reduction.
- Rural development.
- Rural poverty.
- Rural poverty reduction.
- Water resources.
- Wetlands.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (45 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2015.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This paper identifies the low-elevation coastal zone populations and developing regions most vulnerable to sea-level rise and other coastal hazards, such as storm surges, coastal erosion, and salt-water intrusion. The focus is on the rural poor in the low-elevation coastal zone, as their economic livelihoods are especially endangered directly by coastal hazards and indirectly through the impacts of climate change on key coastal and near-shore ecosystems. Using geo-spatially referenced malnutrition and infant mortality data for 2000 as a proxy for poverty, this study finds that just 15 developing countries contain over 90 percent of the world's low-elevation coastal zone rural poor. Low-income countries as a group have the highest incidence of poverty, which declines somewhat for lower-middle-income countries, and then is much lower for upper-middle-income economies. South Asia, East Asia and the Pacific, and Sub-Saharan Africa account for most of the world's low-elevation coastal zone rural poor, and have a high incidence of poverty among their rural low-elevation coastal zone populations. Although fostering growth, especially in coastal areas, may reduce rural poverty in the low-elevation coastal zone, additional policy actions will be required to protect vulnerable communities from disasters, to conserve and restore key coastal and near-shore ecosystems, and to promote key infrastructure investments and coastal community response capability.
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