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How do floods and drought impact economic growth and human development at the sub-national level in India?

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Title How do floods and drought impact economic growth and human development at the sub-national level in India?
 
Creator Amarasinghe, Upali
Amarnath, Giriraj
Alahacoon, Niranga
Ghosh, Surajit
 
Subject flooding
drought
natural disasters
economic growth
gross national product
climate change adaptation
mitigation
monsoon climate
rain
trends
satellite observation
estimation
river basins
groundwater recharge
investment
population
 
Description This paper tries to shift the focus of research on the impact of natural disasters on economic growth from global and national levels to sub-national levels. Inadequate sub-national level information is a significant lacuna for planning spatially targeted climate change adaptation investments. A fixed-effect panel regression analyses of 19 states from 2001 to 2015 assess the impacts of exposure to floods and droughts on the growth of gross state domestic product (GSDP) and human development index (HDI) in India. The flood and drought exposure are estimated using satellite data. The 19 states comprise 95% of the population and contribute 93% to the national GDP. The results show that floods indeed expose a large area, but droughts have the most significant impacts at the sub-national level. The most affected GSDPs are in the non-agriculture sectors, positively by the floods and negatively by droughts. No significant influence on human development may be due to substantial investment on mitigation of flood and drought impacts and their influence on better income, health, and education conditions. Because some Indian states still have a large geographical area, profiling disasters impacts at even smaller sub-national units such as districts can lead to effective targeted mitigation and adaptation activities, reduce shocks, and accelerate income growth and human development.
 
Date 2020-10-25
2020-10-29T09:59:40Z
2020-10-29T09:59:40Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Amarasinghe, Upali; Amarnath, Giriraj; Alahacoon, Niranga; Ghosh, Surajit. 2020. How do floods and drought impact economic growth and human development at the sub-national level in India? Climate, 8(11):123. (Special issue: Climate Change and Water-Related Agricultural Risks) [doi: 10.3390/cli8110123]
2225-1154
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110012
https://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/8/11/123/pdf
https://doi.org/10.3390/cli8110123
H050046
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 8(11):123. (Special issue: Climate Change and Water-Related Agricultural Risks)
 
Publisher MDPI AG
 
Source Climate