Publications
Income diversification, social capital and their potential role in uptake of marine Payments for Environmental Services schemes: a study from a Tanzanian fishing community
We analyse the role of risk mitigating strategies upon the willingness to adopt a marine PES scheme in fishing households. More specifically we focus on the … read more »
Coordination under threshold uncertainty in a public goods game
We explored experimentally how threshold uncertainty affects coordination success in a threshold public goods game. Whereas all groups succeeded in providing the public good when the … read more »
Networked Solutions for 21st-Century Challenges; The Economics of Complexity and Scarcity, and the Role of Networked Innovation
Cisco IBSG November 2011 – External link to report
The green growth narrative: paradigm shift or just spin?
Reference Bowen, A., and Fankhauser, S. October 2011. The green growth narrative: paradigm shift or just spin? Global Environmental Change, v.21, pp.1157-1159. External link to full article|
Wildlife conservation and reduced emissions from deforestation in a case study of Nantu Wildlife Reserve, Sulawesi: 2 An institutional framework for REDD+ implementation
Climate change threatens ecosystems and human society, with tropical deforestation contributing a fifth of anthropogenic carbon emissions. The proposed REDD mechanism will provide compensation for tropical forest nations to … read more »
Do climate targets work?
It is only a small exaggeration to say that climate change policy is dominated by targets. Internationally, the emission reduction commitments of industrialized countries are the cornerstone of the … read more »
Wildlife conservation and reduced emissions from deforestation in a case study of Nantu National Park, Sulawesi: 1. The effectiveness of forest protection—many measures, one goal
Discussions on how to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and degradation have prompted scrutiny of methods for measuring rates of forest loss, as well as discussion of the role … read more »
Addressing the risks of nanomaterials under United States and European Union Regulatory Frameworks for Chemicals
Reference Breggin, L., Falkner, R., Porter, R., Pendergrass, J., and Jaspers, N. September 2011. Addressing the risks of nanomaterials under United States and European Union Regulatory Frameworks for Chemicals. Assessing Nanoparticle Risks … read more »
Legislating climate change on a national level
Reference Townshend, T., Fankhauser, S., Matthews, A., Feger, C., Liu, J., and Narciso, T. September 2011. Legislating climate change on a national level. Environment, v.53, pp.5-16.
On cooperation
In this essay I discuss the role of cooperation in the process of innovation. I argue for a reorientation of the way we conceptualize economic behavior, taking account of … read more »
