Publications
Endogenous minimum participation in international environmental treaties
Many international treaties come into force only after a minimum number of countries have signed and ratified the treaty. Minimum participation constraints are particularly frequent in the case of … read more »
Technology transfer by CDM projects: a comparison of Brazil, China, India and Mexico.
In a companion paper [Dechezleprêtre, A., Glachant, M., Ménière, Y., 2008. The Clean Development Mechanism and the international diffusion of technologies: An empirical study, Energy Policy 36, 1273–1283], we … read more »
How national science academies in developed countries can assist development in sub-Saharan Africa
Ward, R.E.T., Fong, J., Jones, B.E.M., Casselton, L.A. and Cox, S.J. 2009. International Journal of Technology Management, v.46, p.9-26.
. Adaptation to climate change: threats and opportunities for the insurance industry
Herweijer, C., Ranger, N. and Ward, R.E.T. 2009. In: ‘The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice’, v.34, p.360-380.
Climate change, the public, and the media in the UK: a watershed moment
Ward, R.E.T. 2009. In: Boyce, T. and Lewis, J. (eds) ‘Climate Change and the Media’. Peter Lang Publishing Inc., New York, p.59-64.
Equity weighting and the marginal damage costs of climate change
Climate change will give rise to different impacts in different countries, and different countries have different levels of development. Equity-weighted estimates of the (marginal) impact of greenhouse gas emissions … read more »
Economics and the governance of sustainable development. Governing Sustainability: essays in honour of Tim O’Riordan
In this chapter we assess the role of economics in governance for sustainable development. Firstly, we ask how has the‘mainstream’ environmental and resource economics paradigm helped us understand the … read more »
The Royal Society and the debate on climate change
Ward, B. 2007. In: Bauer, M.W. and Bucchi, M. (eds) Journalism, Science and Society: Science Communication between News and Public Relations. Routledge, UK, p.159-172.
Environmental cost-benefit analysis
Environmental cost-benefit analysis, or CBA, refers to the economic appraisal of policies and projects that have the deliberate aim of improving the provision of environmental services or actions that … read more »
Economics, ethics and climate change. Arguments for a Better World
There may never have been an instance of environmental pollution to challenge our powers of analysis and evaluation quite like climate change. Global in its causes and consequences, spanning … read more »
