Publications

Media disasters? Newspaper coverage and the distribution of humanitarian aid
Reference McDermott, T.K.J. July 2012. Media disasters? Newspaper coverage and the distribution of humanitarian aid. Work in progress.

Are national economies (virtually) sustainable?: an empirical analysis of natural assets in international trade
Atkinson, G., Agarwala, M., and P. Muñoz. (2012). In Inclusive Wealth Report 2012 Measuring progress toward sustainability, eds. Partha Dasgupta, Anantha Duraiappah and Pablo Muñoz. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. … read more »

Climate policy integration beyond principled priority: a framework for analysis
Countries aiming to achieve ambitious international and national climate objectives need to integrate climate considerations into all sectoral policies. This contribution argues that since climate change … read more »

Industry compensation under relocation risk: a firm-level analysis of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
When industry compensation is offered to prevent relocation of regulated firms, efficiency requires that payments be distributed across firms so as to equalise marginal relocation probabilities, … read more »

Improving cost-efficiency of conservation auctions with joint bidding
Most current models of conservation auctions are incompatible with the assessment that there are environmental externalities and synergies between bidders. Yet, conservation auctions are usually set up for the … read more »

Book Review: Local climate action planning
Nachmany, M. 2012. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, v.30.

The “advancedness” of knowledge in pollution-saving technological change with a qualitative application to SO2 cap and trade
This paper investigates the extent to which ‘advanced’ knowledge and technology played a role in the SO2 compliance process in electric power plants under the US SO2 cap and … read more »

La paradiplomacia ambiental em la nueva gobernanza internacional
Rei, F., Cunha, K. and Setzer, J. (2012). TIP – Trabajos de Investigación en Paradiplomacia, 1(2), p. 50-63 (Spanish).

Social and Cultural Barriers to Adaptation Implementation: The Case of South Africa
Leck, H., Sutherland, C., Scott, D., and Oelofse, G. 2011. Chapter 4 in Masters, L., and Duff, L. (eds.) Overcoming Barriers to Climate Change Adaptation Implementation in Southern Africa, Pretoria: … read more »

Economy and energy
Yeager, K., F. Dayo, M. Dominik, R. Fouquet, A. Gilau, R. Hosier, A. Miller, S. Rao, S. Sethi. 2012. In: N. Nakicenovic, L. Gomez-Echeverri and T.B. Johansson (eds.) Global Energy … read more »


