Publication: The Cost of Coastal Zone Degradation in Georgia: A Tool for the Coastal Zone Adaptation and the Nationally Determined Contributions
Date
2021-02
ISSN
Published
2021-02
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
The cost of environmental degradation
(COED) report focuses on Georgia’s coastal zone. Georgia’s
coastal zone is crucial to the national economy but has been
affected by substantial environmental degradation. This
report estimates the impact of degradation that occurred in
2017, as a result of pollution, flooding, coastal erosion,
and agricultural soil and forest degradation in eight of
coastal Georgia’s municipalities. Economic values are
expressed in 2017 prices. This study is a first attempt to
estimate the COED of Georgia’s coastal zone and so features
some uncertainties regarding data and information used for
cost estimates. Therefore, estimates of this report provide
an order of magnitude of the COED for selected areas
affected by degradation. Raising awareness of the magnitude
of coastal degradation is a critical step towards enacting
positive change. Therefore, this report focuses on coastal
Georgia’s eight municipalities, estimating, in monetary
terms, the COED in 2017. Estimates provide an indication of
the real magnitude of damage and of the urgency of action
needed to protect Georgia’s coastal zone. The report is
organized as follows: chapter one gives introduction.
Chapter two provides an overview of the methods used for
estimating the COED and covers the report limitations.
Chapter three reports estimate of costs related to
pollution, chapter four addresses the cost of flooding and
coastal erosion, while chapter five analyzes costs
associated with soil and forest degradation. Chapter six
qualifies potential risks due to climate change in the
coastal zone of Georgia. Chapter seven outlines some
recommendations that Georgia may take to reduce annual
degradation costs.
Citation
“World Bank. 2021. The Cost of Coastal Zone Degradation in Georgia : A Tool for the Coastal Zone Adaptation and the Nationally Determined Contributions. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/35179 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”