期刊
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
卷 53, 期 8, 页码 6425-6438出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2017WR020640
关键词
water security; risk; investment; economic growth; dynamical systems model
资金
- Global Water Partnership Task Force on Water Security and Sustainable Growth
- UK Natural Environment Research Council [NE/K002309/1, NE/I01277X/2]
- Oxford Martin Programme
- Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council [430-2014-00785]
- UK Aid from the UK Department for International Development (DFID) [201880]
- NERC [NE/M020339/1, NE/K002309/1, NE/I01277X/2] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/K002309/1, NE/M020339/1, NE/I01277X/2] Funding Source: researchfish
Investments in the physical infrastructure, human capital, and institutions needed for water resources management have been noteworthy in the development of most civilizations. These investments affect the economy in two distinct ways: (i) by improving the factor productivity of water in multiple economic sectors, especially those that are water intensive such as agriculture and energy and (ii) by reducing acute and chronic harmful effects of water-related hazards like floods, droughts, and water-related diseases. The need for capital investment to mitigate risks and promote economic growth is widely acknowledged, but prior conceptual work on the relationship between water-related investments and economic growth has focused on the productive and harmful roles of water in the economy independently. Here the two influences are combined using a simple, dynamical systems model of water-related investment, risk, and growth. In cases where initial water security is low, initial investment in water-related assets enables growth. Without such investment, losses due to water-related hazards exert a drag on economic growth and may create a poverty trap. The presence and location of the poverty trap is context-specific and depends on the exposure of productive water-related assets to water-related risk. Exogenous changes in water-related risk can potentially push an economy away from a growth path toward a poverty trap. Our investigation shows that an inverted-U-shaped investment relation between the level of investment in water security and the current level of water security leads to faster rates of growth than the alternatives that we consider here, and that this relation is responsible for the S-curve that is posited in the literature. These results illustrate the importance of accounting for environmental and health risks in economic models and offer insights for the design of robust policies for investment in water-related productive assets to manage risk, in the face of environmental change.
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