Publications
The survival of the conformist: social pressure and renewable resource management
This paper examines the role of other-regarding behavior as a mechanism for the establishment and maintenance of cooperation in resource use under variable social and environmental conditions. By coupling … read more »
Trade, climate change and the political game theory of border carbon adjustments
The lack of real progress at the Durban climate change conference in 2011—postponing effective action until at least 2020—has many causes, one of which is the … read more »
The political economy of deforestation in the tropics
Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and threatens the world’s most diverse ecosystems. The prevalence of illegal forest extraction in the … read more »
Evidence on CO2 emissions and business cycles
CO2 emissions and GDP are positively correlated over the business cycle. Most climate change researchers would agree with the preceding intuitive statement despite the absence of … read more »
Embodied carbon in trade: a survey of the empirical literature
Measuring consumption-based emissions and the implied embodied emissions in trade (EET) has seen a resurgence in recent years, with a growing number of papers reporting country-level … read more »
‘Green’ growth, ‘green’ jobs and labour markets
‘Green’ growth, ‘green’ jobs and labour markets read more »
Book review: The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited by J Lerner and S Stern
Reference Grover, D. 2012. Book review, The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited by J Lerner and S Stern. Journal of Economic Literature.
The contribution of the European Union to global climate change governance: explaining the conditions for EU actorness
As a regional organization, the European Union’s role in global climate governance faces constraints that do not apply to other members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate … read more »
Deep uncertainty in long-term hurricane risk: Scenario generation and implications for future climate experiments
Current projections of long-term trends in Atlantic hurricane activity due to climate change are deeply uncertain, both in magnitude and sign. This creates challenges for adaptation planning in exposed … read more »
Climate Change Policies: global challenges and future prospects (edited by Cerdá, Labandeira )
Reference Tavoni, A. 2012. Climate Change Policies: global challenges and future prospects (edited by Cerdá, Labandeira [book review]). Government and Policy, v.30.
