Publications
Building effective and sustainable risk transfer initiatives in low- and middle-income economies: what can we learn from existing insurance schemes?
Negotiators for Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are exploring if and how risk transfer solutions could enhance adaptation efforts in those countries that are … read more »
The case for carbon pricing
Carbon pricing, whether through emissions trading or taxes which discourage high-carbon behaviour, should be a fundamental pillar of policies designed to mitigate climate change. Nevertheless, successful implementation of pricing schemes … read more »
Pattern scaled climate change scenarios: are these useful for adaptation?
Pattern scaling methods are being widely applied to generate scenarios of climate change for quantication of their impacts on different systems. While generic limitations of this … read more »
Charitable Intent: A Moral or Social Construct? A Revised Theory of Planned Behavior Model.
Current Psychology, 2011. Abstract Given an increasing global need to elicit and stimulate charitable giving and in light of the limited social-psychological research on this subject, this study contributes to … read more »
Public pressure versus lobbying – how do Environmental NGOs matter most in climate negotiations?
Advocacy nongovernmental organisations have the largest influence on the outcome of climate negotiations when they mobilise public pressure in collaboration with the media. Environmental NGOs can … read more »
Unawareness with ‘possible’ possible worlds
Logical structures for modelling agents’ reasoning about unawareness are presented where it can hold simultaneously that: agents’ beliefs about whether they are fully aware need not … read more »
Advisory workshop on the British Investment Bank conference
Contributor, Westminster, 2 November 2011 – External link to publication
Government discounting controversies: the valuation of social time preference
The conceptual basis and numerical quantification of the time discount rate (or rates) to use for the comparison of policies or projects from a national perspective … read more »
Government discounting controversies: changing prices, opportunity costs and systematic risk
The conceptual basis and numerical quantification of the time discount rate (or rates) to use for public sector analysis have been debated for over half a … read more »
Asymmetry, optimal transfers and international environmental agreements
This paper applies optimal sharing rules to a coalition formation game with positive externalities, demonstrating the effectiveness of well-designed transfer schemes in improving outcomes for participation … read more »
