Shapefile for Climate Impact Lab "impact regions"
CIL_impact_regions is a shapefile folder containing:
- agglomerated-world-new.dbf
- agglomerated-world-new.fgh
- agglomerated-world-new.shp
- agglomerated-world-new.shx
Shapefile folder describing the spatial boundaries (polygons) of 24,378 Impact Regions. Impact regions are agglomerated from global administrative units (GADM) at various levels based on maintaining approximately similar population and average climate within each region (Rode et al., 2021; Carleton et al., 2022). For reference, their size is similar to that of counties in the United States and districts in India and China. For more details on impact regions, see Carleton et al. 2022 Appendix C.
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gadmid - GADM code. You can safely ignore this, but they come from GADM https://gadm.org/
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hierid - Unique Impact Region identifier. Often referred to as "region" in other CIL datasets.
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color - Color code for each region
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ISO - 3-digit ISO country code
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geometry - vector geometries describing Impact Region polygons
Carleton, Tamma, et al. “Valuing the Global Mortality Consequences of Climate Change Accounting for Adaptation Costs and Benefits.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 137(4), 2037–2105 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjac020
Rode, Ashwin, et al. “Estimating a Social Cost of Carbon for Global Energy Consumption.” Nature 598, 308–314 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03883-8
Individual files can be downloaded by clicking on the file and then the "download raw file" icon on the top right of the file viewer.
Note to those using git clone instead: "CIL_impact_regions/agglomerated-world-new.shp" is managed by Git Large File Storage and will not be downloaded with git clone unless you also have git lfs installed. To install, see https://git-lfs.com/ .