Richard Perkins

Dr Richard Perkins joined the Department in 2006, having previously lectured at the University of Plymouth. He received his PhD in Geography ('Environmental Leapfrogging in India') from the University of Cambridge in 2002.

Richard is Programme Director of the MSc Environmental Policy and Regulation.

• Innovation diffusion and convergence

• Economic globalization and environmental change

• Environmental policy implementation and compliance

• Corporate environmentalism

• Venture capital and private equity

• Geographies of education 

Selected recent publications:

• Perkins, Richard (2013) Sustainable development and the making and unmaking of a developing world. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 31 (6). pp. 1003-1022. ISSN 0263-774X .

• ‘Does the ‘California effect’ operate across borders? Trading- and investing-up in automobile emission standards’ (with Eric Neumayer), Journal of European Public Policy, 2012, 19 (2): 217-237.

• 'Geographic variations in the early diffusion of corporate voluntary standards: Comparing ISO14001 and the Global Compact' (with Eric Neumayer), Environment and Planning A, 2010, 42 (2): 347-365.

• 'Globalizing corporate environmentalism? Convergence and heterogeneity in Indian industry', Studies in Comparative International Development, 2007, 42 (3): 279-309.

• 'The international diffusion of new technologies: A multitechnology analysis of latecomer advantage and global economic integration' (with Eric Neumayer), Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2005, 95 (4): 789-808.

• 'Environmental leapfrogging in developing countries: A critical assessment and reconstruction', Natural Resources Forum, 2003, 27 (3): 177-188.

Additional information and links to papers can be found on Richard's personal webpage.