Natural Disasters Caused by Climate Change and Agricultural Products Loss in Cross-Strait Industry: An Input-Output Analysis

Lin, H. and Chou, L., 2019. Natural disasters caused by climate change and agricultural products loss in cross-strait industry: An input-output analysis. In: Yu, T.-s. (ed.), Environmental Sustainability: Water Resources Integrated Management and the Development of Coastal Environments. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 96, pp. 1–4. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208.In order to estimate the direct and indirect losses caused by natural disaster, this study conducts an Inter-Country Input-Output (ICIO) analysis to discuss the impacts on cross-strait industries in the face of disasters losses. The present study includes data from 96 sectors' cross-strait Inter-Country Input-Output table and the statistics of agriculture during 2005-2011 in Taiwan and the period 2005-2010 in Mainland China. The results indicate the total value-added effect in Mainland China is larger than Taiwan, whereas the multiplier of agriculture losses in Taiwan is larger than Mainland China. This indicates that the losses caused by natural disasters are larger in Taiwan is than in Mainland China.