The Socioeconomic Impact of Climate Change in Developing Countries

The Socioeconomic Impact of Climate Change in Developing Countries The Socioeconomic Impact of Climate Change in Developing Countries in the Next Decades A REVIEW Philip Kofi Adom Abstract The Socioeconomic Impact of Climate Change in Developing Countries in the Next Decades: A Review provides a discussion of future trends as established in the literature on the interaction between socioeconomic i. [...] This indicates the need to consider the local context in the design of climate adaptation and mitigation measures and take urgent actions to reduce the impact of climate change on Africa’s future development, in particular. [...] As the aim is to examine the trends and patterns in the literature on the subject, this study incorporates a desk literature review on the topic to establish the scope, trends, and patterns of the evidence gathered so far from a developing-economy context. [...] In the case of maize, the price change between 2010 and 2050 is 87.3 percent in the optimistic case compared with 100.7 percent in the baseline scenario and 106.3 percent in the pessimistic case. [...] The distribution of the loss is concentrated in the middle- and lower-latitude areas of South America, in Asia, and in the middle latitudes of Africa and North America.