Publications
The slow search for solutions: lessons from historical energy transitions by sector and service.
Fouquet, R. 2010. Energy Policy, v.38, pp.6586-96.
Does adaptation to climate change provide food security? A micro-perspective from Ethiopia
We examine the driving forces behind farmers’ decisions to adapt to climate change, and the impact of adaptation on farmers’ food production. We investigate whether there … read more »
Modern management: good for the environment or just hot air?
We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information … read more »
Business and global climate governance: a neo-plurist perspective. Business and Global Governance
Business plays a critical role in global climate politics; this is widely agreed upon in international relations and political economy. Whether we should view business primarily as blocking political … read more »
A Lockean defence of grandfathering emission rights
Reference Bovens, L. 2010. A Lockean defence of grandfathering emission rights (forthcoming). The Ethics of Global Climate Change [Denis Arnold (ed.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Evidence-based policy or policy-based evidence gathering? Biofuels, the EU and the 10% target
The 2009 Renewable Energy Directive mandates European Union member-states’ road transport fuel to comprise a minimum of 10% renewable content by 2020. This target is expected to be met … read more »
Environmental policy and the economic downturn
This paper considers how environmental policies should respond to macroeconomic downturns. It first explores the implications of the global economic downturn of 2008–9 for environmental policies, focusing in particular … read more »
On non-marginal cost-benefit analysis
Conventional cost-benefit analysis incorporates the normally reasonable assumption that the policy or project under examination is marginal in the sense that it will not significantly change … read more »
Comment: ‘Knock, Knock: Where is the Evidence for Dangerous Human-Caused Global Warming?’ by Robert M. Carter
Ward, R.E.T. 2010. In: Economic Analysis and Policy, v.40, p.125-143.
