Economic impact of climate change on Malaysian rubber production

The incidence and intensity of extreme weather will be more frequent, which will likely challenge human and natural systems more than normal change. Agricultural sector falls under the primary damage sector due to climate change and is considered one of the most vulnerable sector to climate change....

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Main Author: Borkotoky, Parthajyoti
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2012
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spelling my-upm-ir.322802024-08-28T07:31:53Z Economic impact of climate change on Malaysian rubber production 2012-02 Borkotoky, Parthajyoti The incidence and intensity of extreme weather will be more frequent, which will likely challenge human and natural systems more than normal change. Agricultural sector falls under the primary damage sector due to climate change and is considered one of the most vulnerable sector to climate change. Climate has been changing in the conventional rubber growing regions of the country and the current temperature is at the higher end of the optimal temperature range for rubber crop. Thus further increases will adversely affected growth and productivity of natural rubber. The main objective of this study is to estimate the economic impact of climate change on natural rubber in Peninsular Malaysia and to capture the marginal impact of weather conditions on the viability of production systems along with the future climate change impact by predicting the economic impact due to the expected climate change. The present study uses and extends the Ricardian Model to estimate the climate change impacts on Malaysian rubber production using time series data from 1980 -2010. Impacts were estimated by changes in net revenue of rubber for estates and smallholders and combination of both with change in climate. The future impact of change in temperature that is increase in temperature was found to have nonlinear effects on natural rubber production. The results of this study also highlight the importance of precipitation for natural rubber. Marginal impacts of the precipitation and temperature indicate direct and negative relationship between rubber net revenue. The results were in line to what was expected. Furthermore marginal increase of temperature and precipitating will results in a loss of about RM 208 million in total. Based on future climate change scenarios from Atmosphere/Ocean General Circulation Model (AOGCMs) the rubber industry will bear a loss between RM 239/Ha to RM 805/Ha if no action is taken and in broader scale it losses between RM 246 million to RM 829 million in total. Rubber - Climatic factors - Malaysia Rubber industry and trade - Malaysia Climatic changes - Economic aspects - Malaysia 2012-02 Thesis http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/32280/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/32280/1/FP%202012%2038R%20pdf.pdf text en public masters Universiti Putra Malaysia Rubber - Climatic factors - Malaysia Rubber industry and trade - Malaysia Climatic changes - Economic aspects - Malaysia Faculty of Agriculture Abd Latif, Ismail
institution Universiti Putra Malaysia
collection PSAS Institutional Repository
language English
advisor Abd Latif, Ismail
topic Rubber - Climatic factors - Malaysia
Rubber industry and trade - Malaysia
Climatic changes - Economic aspects - Malaysia
spellingShingle Rubber - Climatic factors - Malaysia
Rubber industry and trade - Malaysia
Climatic changes - Economic aspects - Malaysia
Borkotoky, Parthajyoti
Economic impact of climate change on Malaysian rubber production
description The incidence and intensity of extreme weather will be more frequent, which will likely challenge human and natural systems more than normal change. Agricultural sector falls under the primary damage sector due to climate change and is considered one of the most vulnerable sector to climate change. Climate has been changing in the conventional rubber growing regions of the country and the current temperature is at the higher end of the optimal temperature range for rubber crop. Thus further increases will adversely affected growth and productivity of natural rubber. The main objective of this study is to estimate the economic impact of climate change on natural rubber in Peninsular Malaysia and to capture the marginal impact of weather conditions on the viability of production systems along with the future climate change impact by predicting the economic impact due to the expected climate change. The present study uses and extends the Ricardian Model to estimate the climate change impacts on Malaysian rubber production using time series data from 1980 -2010. Impacts were estimated by changes in net revenue of rubber for estates and smallholders and combination of both with change in climate. The future impact of change in temperature that is increase in temperature was found to have nonlinear effects on natural rubber production. The results of this study also highlight the importance of precipitation for natural rubber. Marginal impacts of the precipitation and temperature indicate direct and negative relationship between rubber net revenue. The results were in line to what was expected. Furthermore marginal increase of temperature and precipitating will results in a loss of about RM 208 million in total. Based on future climate change scenarios from Atmosphere/Ocean General Circulation Model (AOGCMs) the rubber industry will bear a loss between RM 239/Ha to RM 805/Ha if no action is taken and in broader scale it losses between RM 246 million to RM 829 million in total.
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author Borkotoky, Parthajyoti
author_facet Borkotoky, Parthajyoti
author_sort Borkotoky, Parthajyoti
title Economic impact of climate change on Malaysian rubber production
title_short Economic impact of climate change on Malaysian rubber production
title_full Economic impact of climate change on Malaysian rubber production
title_fullStr Economic impact of climate change on Malaysian rubber production
title_full_unstemmed Economic impact of climate change on Malaysian rubber production
title_sort economic impact of climate change on malaysian rubber production
granting_institution Universiti Putra Malaysia
granting_department Faculty of Agriculture
publishDate 2012
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/32280/1/FP%202012%2038R%20pdf.pdf
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