Publications
Financing for Sustainable Development
Fankhauser, S. and D.W. Pearce (2014). Book chapter in: G. Atkinson, S. Dietz, E. Neumayer and M. Agarwala, eds. Handbook of Sustainable Development. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Path dependence, innovation and the economics of climate change
Shifting our fossil-fuelled civilisation to clean modes of production and consumption requires deep transformations in our energy and economic systems read more »
Innovation, risk and government: perspectives and principles from the social sciences
The interplay between innovation and risk, and the social interactions between public and private sectors, are critical in fostering innovation and determining its effectiveness. read more »
Climate change mitigation as catastrophic risk management
Since Nicholas Stern published his influential ‘Review on the Economics of Climate Change’ for the British government in 2006, economists have become increasingly interested in how the value of climate policy, especially the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions at the global level, depends on risk and uncertainty. New lines of research make the case that mitigating climate change is above all an exercise in catastrophic risk management. read more »
Green growth: an assessment
‘Green growth’ is almost tautologically required for global welfare to rise in the long run. Economic growth is desirable, not least because over 1 billion people still live in conditions … read more »
Flood insurance in England – An assessment of the current and newly proposed insurance scheme in the context of rising flood risk
By applying our analytical framework we find an absence of formal incentive mechanisms for risk reduction in the existing and proposed Flood Re scheme. We identify the barriers for applying insurance to risk reduction and point to some possible modifications in the Flood Re proposal to deliver a greater link between risk transfer and risk reduction. read more »
The impacts of environmental regulations on competitiveness
Report shows that environmental regulations have only a a marginal impact on competiviveness and that the benefits often outweigh the costs read more »
Green growth
Ch. 15 in Atkinson, G., Dietz, S., Neumayer, E., and M. Agarwala (Ed.s) (2014): Handbook of sustainable development, 2nd edition, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK. ISBN 978 1 78254 469 2. … read more »
Annual Status Report on Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) 2014, Mitigation Momentum, November 2014
This report begins with an overview of the latest statistics on NAMA (Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions) development, drawing from the UNFCCC NAMA Registry and the Ecofys NAMA Database.The second section … read more »
Taking an organisational approach to private sector adaptation – the case of Tata Teleservices in India
A growing paradigm of ‘engaging the private sector’ is noticeable in all areas of climate risk management and adaptation. However, there is limited empirical investigation into what action companies are … read more »
