Climate change and Bangladesh fisheries and aquaculture: Evidences from the household income and expenditure survey (HIES)2010 data

Azad, Abul Kalam and Wadood, Syed Naimul (2017): Climate change and Bangladesh fisheries and aquaculture: Evidences from the household income and expenditure survey (HIES)2010 data. Published in: Social Science Review [The Dhaka University Studies], Part-D , Vol. 34, No. 1 (1 July 2017): pp. 195-209.

Abstract

This paper estimates the impact of climate change on the fisheries and aquaculture sector of Bangladesh by employing appropriate econometric models. The Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2010 (HIES,2010) data have been used to estimate the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regressions for examining the impact. Since “climate change” is a long run phenomenon, its impacts may not be discernable in the short run, cross sections data. Our econometric results find some negative impacts of climate change on the household fisheries production,though estimated coefficients are not statistically significant.Climate change therefore does not have any impact on the fisheries and aquaculture sector at the household level at least in the short run. Within HIES 2010 data, regarding geographical locations, respondent households associated with fisheries from Dhaka and Rangpur divisions (and also to a lesser extent, Khulna) have been found to be disproportionately more vulnerable to climate change-related shocks as well as having lower yearly mean household incomes, compared to their counterparts in other divisions.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: fisheries, aquaculture, climate change, Bangladesh
• Subjects: D - Microeconomics > D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q2 - Renewable Resources and Conservation > Q22 - Fishery ; Aquaculture; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q5 - Environmental Economics > Q54 - Climate ; Natural Disasters and Their Management ; Global Warming

References

Angrist, J. D. and Pischke, J. S. (2008). Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist’s Companion. 1st Edition, New Jersey:Princeton University Press.

Biswas, M (2013). “Climate Change & Its Impacts on Bangladesh”, pp. 86-95 in Rahman, G., (ed.), Planned Decentralization: Aspired Development, World Town Planning Day 2013. Bangladesh Institute of Planners, Dhaka

Brander, K.M. (2007). “Global Fish Production and Climate Change”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,104(50), pp. 19704–19714.

Cheung, W.W.L., Lam, V.W.Y, Sarmiento, J.L., Kearney, K., Watson, R. and Pauly, D. (2009). “Projecting Global Marine Biodiversity Impacts under Climate Change Scenarios”. Fish and Fisheries 10, 235–251.

Chowdhury, MTH, Sukhan, ZP and MA Hannan(2010). “Climate Change and Its Impact on Fisheries Resource in Bangladesh”, Proceedings of International Conference on Environmental Aspects of Bangladesh(ICEAB10), Japan, Sept. 2010.

Department of Fisheries (2010). Fisheries Informatics Centre (FIC), Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, website: http://fistenet.gov.bd (Accessed on 16.04.2017).

Department of Fisheries (DoF) (Various Years). Fisheries Statistical Yearbook of Bangladesh. Dhaka: Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Fisheries, Govt. of the Peoples’ Republic of Bangladesh.

FAO (2008). “Climate Change Implications for Fisheries and Aquaculture”, in “The State of Fisheries and Aquaculture 2008”. Rome: Food and Agricultural Organization, Rome, Italy, pp. 87–91.Also cited FAO (2011).

FAO (2011). “Implications of climate change on fisheries and aquaculture: challenges for adaptation and mitigation in the Asia-Pacific region”. Rome: Food and Agricultural Organization, Rome, Italy.

FAO (2015). “FAO Statistical Pocketbook World Food and Agriculture”. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Hamilton, C. (2009). “Is it too late to prevent Catastrophic Climate Change?” Lecture to a Meeting of the Royal Society of the Arts, Sydney, 21 October 2009.

IPCC (2007). “Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change” [Core Writing Team, Pachauri, R.K. and Reisinger, A. (Eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland.

IPCC (2014). “Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change” [Core Writing Team: R.K. Pachauri and L.A. Meyer (Eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland.

Ministry of Finance (2016). Bangladesh Economic Review 2016. Dhaka: Economic Advisors’ Cell, Finance Division, Ministry of Finance, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh.

Stern, N. (2007). “The Economics of Climate Change. The Stern Review”. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

United Nations (2016). “The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2016”.New York: The United Nations.

World Bank (2015). World Bank Population Data. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL (accessed on 16.04.2017)

World Fish Center (2007), Fisheries and Aquaculture Can Provide Solutions to Cope with Climate Change. Issues Brief No.1701. World Fish Center, Penang, Malaysia, 4 pp. Available at: http://www.worldfishcenter.org/v2/files/CC-ThreatToFisheries1701.pdf (accessed on 16.04.2017)

Yazdi, S. K. and Shakouri, B. (2010). “The Effects of Climate Change on Aquaculture”, International Journal of Environmental Science and Development, Vol.1, No.5, pp. 378-382, December 2010

Zaman, A.K.M. H and Islam, MJ (2012). “Managing Climate Change: Bangladesh Perspective”. ASA University Review, Vol. 6 No. 1, pp. 1-13, January–June, 2012.