Climate change adaptation and the role of fuel subsidies: An empirical bio-economic modeling study for an artisanal open-access fishery

Climate change can severely impact artisanal fisheries and affect the role they play in food security. We study climate change effects on the triple bottom line of ecological productivity, fishers’ incomes, and fish consumption for an artisanal open-access fishery. We develop and apply an empirical,...

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Autores principales: Lancker, Kira, Deppenmeier, Anna-Lena, Demissie, Teferi Dejene, Schmidt, Jörn O.
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/103396
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author Lancker, Kira
Deppenmeier, Anna-Lena
Demissie, Teferi Dejene
Schmidt, Jörn O.
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Deppenmeier, Anna-Lena
Lancker, Kira
Schmidt, Jörn O.
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Deppenmeier, Anna-Lena
Demissie, Teferi Dejene
Schmidt, Jörn O.
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description Climate change can severely impact artisanal fisheries and affect the role they play in food security. We study climate change effects on the triple bottom line of ecological productivity, fishers’ incomes, and fish consumption for an artisanal open-access fishery. We develop and apply an empirical, stochastic bio-economic model for the Senegalese artisanal purse seine fishery on small pelagic fish and compare the simulated fishery’s development using four climate projections and two policy scenarios. We find that economic processes of adaptation may amplify the effects of climate variations. The regions’ catch potential increases with climate change, induced by stock distribution changes. However, this outcome escalates over-fishing, whose effects outpace the incipiently favorable climate change effects under three of the four climate projections. Without policy action, the fishery is estimated to collapse in 2030–2035 on average over 1000 runs. We propose an easily implementable and overall welfare-increasing intervention: reduction of fuel subsidies. If fuel subsidies were abolished, ecological sustainability as well as the fishery’s welfare contribution would increase regardless of the climate projection.
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spelling CGSpace1033962025-02-19T13:42:48Z Climate change adaptation and the role of fuel subsidies: An empirical bio-economic modeling study for an artisanal open-access fishery Lancker, Kira Deppenmeier, Anna-Lena Demissie, Teferi Dejene Schmidt, Jörn O. climate change adaptation fisheries food security agriculture Climate change can severely impact artisanal fisheries and affect the role they play in food security. We study climate change effects on the triple bottom line of ecological productivity, fishers’ incomes, and fish consumption for an artisanal open-access fishery. We develop and apply an empirical, stochastic bio-economic model for the Senegalese artisanal purse seine fishery on small pelagic fish and compare the simulated fishery’s development using four climate projections and two policy scenarios. We find that economic processes of adaptation may amplify the effects of climate variations. The regions’ catch potential increases with climate change, induced by stock distribution changes. However, this outcome escalates over-fishing, whose effects outpace the incipiently favorable climate change effects under three of the four climate projections. Without policy action, the fishery is estimated to collapse in 2030–2035 on average over 1000 runs. We propose an easily implementable and overall welfare-increasing intervention: reduction of fuel subsidies. If fuel subsidies were abolished, ecological sustainability as well as the fishery’s welfare contribution would increase regardless of the climate projection. 2019-08-21 2019-08-23T13:32:49Z 2019-08-23T13:32:49Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/103396 en Open Access Public Library of Science Lancker K, Deppenmeier A, Demissie T, Schmidt JO. 2019. Climate change adaptation and the role of fuel subsidies: An empirical bio-economic modeling study for an artisanal open-access fishery. Plos One 14(8):e0220433.
spellingShingle climate change
adaptation
fisheries
food security
agriculture
Lancker, Kira
Deppenmeier, Anna-Lena
Demissie, Teferi Dejene
Schmidt, Jörn O.
Climate change adaptation and the role of fuel subsidies: An empirical bio-economic modeling study for an artisanal open-access fishery
title Climate change adaptation and the role of fuel subsidies: An empirical bio-economic modeling study for an artisanal open-access fishery
title_full Climate change adaptation and the role of fuel subsidies: An empirical bio-economic modeling study for an artisanal open-access fishery
title_fullStr Climate change adaptation and the role of fuel subsidies: An empirical bio-economic modeling study for an artisanal open-access fishery
title_full_unstemmed Climate change adaptation and the role of fuel subsidies: An empirical bio-economic modeling study for an artisanal open-access fishery
title_short Climate change adaptation and the role of fuel subsidies: An empirical bio-economic modeling study for an artisanal open-access fishery
title_sort climate change adaptation and the role of fuel subsidies an empirical bio economic modeling study for an artisanal open access fishery
topic climate change
adaptation
fisheries
food security
agriculture
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/103396
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