Charles Palmer

Charles Palmer joined the Department of Geography and Environment in September 2009. Previously he was a Senior Researcher at the Chair of Environmental Policy and Economics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He holds a BA in Biological Sciences from Oxford University, an MSc in Environmental and Resource Economics from University College London and a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Bonn, Germany.

He primarily works in the fields of environmental and development economics, has published widely, and has worked for a number of international organisations including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in New York, and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Indonesia. His current research includes the continuation of work on forest management and land-use change in tropical countries, as well as work on urban land use and research on similar topics in his home country, the UK).

• Environmental and development economics

• Contracting for natural resource use

• Mitigation and adaptation strategies for climate change

• Institutions and property rights

• Instruments for environmental policy

Selected recent publications:

• 'Conservation payments under uncertainty', Land Economics,  91 (1). pp. 36-56 (with Stefanie Engel, Luca Taschini, and Simon Urech), 2015

• 'Economy-wide impacts of REDD when there is political influence', Resource and Energy Economics, 40 (1). pp. 107-126 (with Timothy Laing), 2015

• 'Relaxing constraints as a conservation policy', Environment and Development Economics, 19 (4). pp. 1-24 (with Ben Groom), 2014

• 'Unveiling information on opportunity costs in REDD: Who obtains the surplus when policy objectives differ?' Resource and Energy Economics, 36 (2). pp. 508-527. (with Philippe Delacote, Riyong Kim Bakkegaard and Bo Jellesmark Thorsen), 2014

• 'Dynamics of indirect land-use change: empirical evidence from Brazil', Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 65 (3): 377-393 (with Saraly Andrade de Sá and Salvatore Di Falco), 2013.

• 'On the endogeneity of resource co-management: theory and evidence from Indonesia', Land Economics 89 (2): 308-329 (with Stefanie Engel and Alex Pfaff), 2013.

• 'Biodiversity, poverty, and development', Oxford Review of Economic Policy 28 (1): 48-68 (with Salvatore Di Falco), 2012.

• 'Enforcement-proof contracts with moral hazard in precaution: ensuring 'permanence' in carbon sequestration', Oxford Economic Papers 64 (2): 350-374 (with Ian A. MacKenzie and Markus Ohndorf), 2012.

• 'Complexities of decentralization in a globalizing world', Environmental and Resource Economics, 50 (2). pp. 157-174 (with Stefanie Engel), 2011.