Bm. Rubin et Md. Hilton, IDENTIFYING THE LOCAL ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT IMPACTS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE-CHANGE, Economic development quarterly, 10(3), 1996, pp. 262-279
The need to evaluate and plan for the region-specific economic develop
ment impacts of potential global climate change is receiving increasin
g attention. This article presents a method for estimating such conseq
uences and the results of exploratory research that applies this metho
d to determining the employment impacts in a recreationally based regi
on. The research results demonstrate that climate variation over the p
ast 20 years has had significant development impacts. For the Pere Mar
quette Watershed region of central-western Michigan, the analysis show
s that employment in the construction; farming;finance, insurance, and
real estate; manufacturing; residuals; services; trade; and transport
ation/utilities sectors of the region is sensitive to climate variatio
n.