Publications
Urban Adaptation to Climate/Environmental Change: Governance, Policy and Planning, Understanding urban adaptation challenges in diverse contexts
Simon, D., and Leck, H. 2014. Editorial introduction : Special issue on Urban Adaptation to Climate/Environmental Change, Urban Climate,7, (2), p1-5.
Is it the climate or the weather? Differential economic impacts of climatic factors in Ethiopia
This paper assesses the distinct impacts of weather and climate change measures on agricultural revenue of farm households in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. This distinction … read more »
Adaptation to climate change and economic growth in developing countries
Published in: Environment and Development Economics. Vol 20, Issue 03, June 2015, pp 380 – 406. DOI: 10.1017/S1355770X14000692, Published online: 25 November 2014. Abstract Developing countries are vulnerable to the … read more »
Assessing agricultural risks of climate change in the 21st century in a global gridded crop model intercomparison
Rosenzweig, C., Elliott, J., Deryng, D., et al. (2014). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(9), pp.3268–3273.
Observations on the role of the private sector in the UNFCCC’s loss and damage of climate change work programme
Private sector engagement, particularly in relation to public policy based action and strategy, has become a buzz word in most policy areas, but this is often … read more »
Safeguarding development aid against climate change: evaluating progress and identifying best practice
Official development assistance (ODA) currently totals around $130 billion USD per year, an order of magnitude greater than international climate finance. To safeguard development progress and secure the long-term effectiveness … read more »
Disasters and development: Natural disasters, credit constraints and economic growth
Using a simple two-period model of the economy, we demonstrate the potential effects of natural disasters on economic growth over the medium to long term. In particular, we focus on the effect of such shocks on investment. read more »
Safeguarding development aid against climate change: evaluating progress and identifying best practice
Nicola Ranger, Alex Harvey and Su-Lin Garbett-Shiels. Forthcoming.
Private-sector adaptation to climate risk
Reference Surminski, S. October 2013. Private-sector adaptation to climate risk. Nature Climate Change, v.3, pp.943-945.
Flood insurance schemes and climate adaptation in developing countries
Risk transfer, including insurance, is widely recognized as a tool for increasing financial resilience to severe weather events such as floods. The application of this mechanism varies widely across … read more »
