Because their assets and income represent such a small share of national wealth, the impacts of climate change on poor people, even if dramatic, will be largely invisible in aggregate economic statistics such as the gross domestic product. Assessing and managing future impacts of climate change on...

This chapter focuses on the mangrove conservation decisions of households in four case-study coastal villages in southern Thailand. It tests the hypothesis that as the mangrove area declines, households will experience a reduction in their livelihoods, and they will participate in the replanting of ...

We analyze links between exposure to climate extremes and shocks, vulnerability and coping strategies, environmental reliance and poverty among 7,300 households in forest adjacent communities in 24 developing countries. We combine observed income with predicted income to create four categories of...

Rural households in developing countries depend on crops, forest extraction and other income sources for their livelihoods, but these livelihood contributions are sensitive to climate change. Combining socioeconomic data from about 8,000 smallholder households across the tropics with gridded...

The benefits of mangroves compared to the net returns from converting the areas into shrimp farms were assessed in a case study area in the Kanjanadit district of Surat Thani province in southern Thailand. Local direct uses derived from mangrove areas were valued by determining the net income...

Scientists suggest placing planetary boundaries on human-induced threats to key Earth system sinks and resources. Such boundaries define a "safe operating space" on depletion and pollution. Treating any remaining "space" as a depletable economic asset allows derivation of optimal and actual rules...

The forest transition describes a reversal or turnaround in long-run land-use trends for a country or region from a period of net forest area loss to net gain. Such forest recovery has occurred in high-income economies, and increasingly in developing countries. Although this process has been...

The "Dasgupta Review" of the economics of biodiversity (Dasgupta 2021) identifies many factors that threaten the ecological sustainability of our economies. This article examines how two policy failures - the underpricing and underfunding of nature - influence global land use change and terrestrial ...

Based on data from a sample of 201 households from four case-study coastal villages in southern Thailand, this chapter examines the dependency of the incomes of these households on the mangrove forests in their areas. It also examines the linkages between mangroves and poverty problems in these...

This chapter investigates the role that mangrove area has in determining the hours of labour supplied to outside employment by agricultural households in four case-study coastal villages in southern Thailand. The results reveal that the mangrove area influenced the decision by males to supply...