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: Received: 27 February 2021 / Approved: 2 March 2021 / Online: 2 March 2021 (15:47:00 CET)
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de Wit, M.; Rawlins, J.; Petrie, B. Economic Risk Assessment of Climate Change at the Urban Scale: The Case of Cape Town, South Africa. Preprints2021, 2021030099. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202103.0099.v1
de Wit, M.; Rawlins, J.; Petrie, B. Economic Risk Assessment of Climate Change at the Urban Scale: The Case of Cape Town, South Africa. Preprints 2021, 2021030099. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202103.0099.v1
de Wit, M.; Rawlins, J.; Petrie, B. Economic Risk Assessment of Climate Change at the Urban Scale: The Case of Cape Town, South Africa. Preprints2021, 2021030099. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202103.0099.v1
APA Style
de Wit, M., Rawlins, J., & Petrie, B. (2021). Economic Risk Assessment of Climate Change at the Urban Scale: The Case of Cape Town, South Africa. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202103.0099.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
de Wit, M., Jonty Rawlins and Belynda Petrie. 2021 "Economic Risk Assessment of Climate Change at the Urban Scale: The Case of Cape Town, South Africa" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202103.0099.v1
Abstract
Estimating the economic risks of climate shocks and climate stressors on spatially heterogeneous cities over time remain highly challenging. The purpose of this paper is to present a practical methodology to assess the economic risks of climate change in developing cities to inform spatially sensitive municipal climate response strategies. Building on a capital-based framework (CBF), spatially disaggregated baseline and future scenario scores for economic wealth and its exposure to climate change are developed for six different classes of capital and across 77 major suburbs in Cape Town, South Africa. Capital-at-risk was calculated by combining relative exposure and capital scores across different scenarios and with population impacted plotted against the major suburbs and the city’s 8 main planning districts. The economic risk assessment presented here provides a generic approach to assist investment planning and the implementation of adaptation options through an enhanced understanding of relative levels of capital endowment vis-à-vis relative levels of exposure to climate-related hazards over time. An informed climate response strategy in spatially heterogeneous cities need to include spatially sensitive estimates on capital-at-risk and populations disproportionally impacted by climate exposure over time. The economic risk assessment approach presented here helps in advancing to such a goal.
Business, Economics and Management, Business and Management
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