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Adaptation to flood and drought risk in Austria - VATT

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Economic costs of<br />

non-adaptation<br />

ClimateChange<br />

Causes<br />

Impacts<br />

Solutions<br />

• Economic data on water <strong>in</strong>tensive <strong>in</strong>dustries<br />

• employees: 20 700 (300.000 <strong>in</strong>habitants)<br />

• annual production value: € 2.7 Billion<br />

• annual gross value added: € 1 Billion<br />

• Short run: 2-week loss of production caused by water scarcity<br />

• loss <strong>in</strong> production value: € 105 Million<br />

• loss <strong>in</strong> gross value added: € 40 Million<br />

• metal <strong>in</strong>dustry (PV: € 21 M, GVA: € 7 M)<br />

• food production (PV: € 24 M, GVA: € 8 M)<br />

• <strong>to</strong>urism <strong>in</strong>dustry (PV: € 21 M, GVA: € 9 M)<br />

• Long run: S<strong>to</strong>p of <strong>in</strong>vestment <strong>in</strong> the water <strong>in</strong>tensive <strong>in</strong>dustries<br />

• will cost about 6.000 jobs until 2020 (multiregional <strong>and</strong><br />

multisec<strong>to</strong>ral econometric model)<br />

(source: Prettenthaler/Dalla-Via 2007)<br />

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