Climate Impacts on Capital Accumulation in Barbados

The paper presents a model for small island developing states (SIDS) that examines the relationship between the anticipation of extreme climate events and the resulting damage to commercial capital stocks, specifically applying this model to tropical storm damage in Barbados.

• The authors developed a model for small island developing states that focuses on the loss of commercial capital stocks, including equipment and buildings, caused by extreme climate events, incorporating engineering literature to account for how anticipation of climate change affects the balance between current adaptation spending and future losses.
• When applied to tropical storm damage in Barbados, the model demonstrates that anticipatory behavior alters the level of infrastructure damage for a given degree of climate change, meaning that damage is a function of both climate variables and human behavior.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2019). Climate Impacts on Capital Accumulation in Barbados. https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-impacts-on-capital-accumulation-in-barbados/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Climate Impacts on Capital Accumulation in Barbados. 2019. https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-impacts-on-capital-accumulation-in-barbados/.

Wikipedia

{{cite report |author=Stockholm Environment Institute |title=Climate Impacts on Capital Accumulation in Barbados |date=7 June 2019 |url=https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-impacts-on-capital-accumulation-in-barbados/ |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2019climate, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Climate Impacts on Capital Accumulation in Barbados}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2019}, month = jun, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-impacts-on-capital-accumulation-in-barbados/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }