Spatial economic aspects of climate change

Abstract

Our objective in this special issue is twofold. First, we emphasize the importance of comprehending that the global impacts of climate change notwithstanding, there are salient regionspecific impacts that vary across space. Second, given this observation, we show how rigorous modeling of the connections between climate change and (i) land use changes, (ii) forestry, (iii) infrastructure, and (iv) local labor markets sheds light on a variety of climate change induced spatial economic effects. Following this introductory paper, there are seven additional papers in this special issue. Each of these papers discusses a particular research question at the interface of what we call "climate change and space."

Sustainability spillover effects and partnership between East Asia & Pacific versus North America: interactions of social, environment and economy

“…Global sustainability refers to the interactions among humans, societies, and the biosphere on global scale that co-exist and function in harmony to enable productive growth, stability and resilience for current and future generations (Brown et al 1987 ). In its essence, global sustainability considers an inter-related chain of variables that incorporates socio-economic and environmental interactions to potentially create sustainability solutions (Batabyal and Folmer 2020 ; Hull and Liu 2018 ; Liu et al 2015 ; Nodehi and Taghvaee 2021b ). This, in effect, requires a deeper understanding of interconnected effects of such variables (or spillover effects), that evaluates the effect of a given factor in a flow-based system, as opposed to the most commonly considered holistic approaches.…”

Five new contributions to urban studies

“…Once the events surrounding COVID-19 dissipate, or at least recede, then hopefully regional scientists will take greater note of climate change and other environmental issues, many of which have been slowly but steadily exacerbated by urbanization (Batabyal & Folmer, 2020). These issues have only made the economies of large cities increasingly vulnerable to unexpected forces, and the resiliency programs of these places will only become more complicated (and expensive to maintain) in the future if a patchwork, due in part to political fragmentation, of different local rules is set down by governments to guide the actions of both firms and households.…”