Tavoni, Alessandro

Dr Alessandro Tavoni  

Department

Position held

Assistant Professorial Research Fellow

 

Experience keywords:

Coupled socio-ecological system; International environmental agreements; climate change; cooperation; experimental economics; game theory; the evolution of norms and other-regarding preferences

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My research spans several topics in environmental economics, primarily related to the drivers of cooperation in the (climate) commons. This is tackled through a combination of non-cooperative and evolutionary game theory models, as well as laboratory experiments, surveys and simulations, in an effort to shed light on the potential solutions to environmental dilemmas. Particular attention is given to threshold effects and tipping points in catalysing (or hindering) cooperation. Prospective PhD students who have a solid background in economics and are interested in the above topics, are encouraged to contact me.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Environment

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Italy; Spain; USA; United Kingdom

Languages:

French [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]; Italian [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; Spanish [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]

Media experience:

Radio; TV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)207 107 5145

LSE email:

a.tavoni@lse.ac.uk

Alt email:

alessandro.tavoni@gmail.com

Publications

2016

Currarini, Sergio and Marchiori, Carmen and Tavoni, Alessandro (2016) Network economics and the environment: insights and perspectives Environmental and Resource Economics, 65 (1). 159-189. ISSN 0924-6460

Marchiori, Carmen and Dietz, Simon and Tavoni, Alessandro (2016) Domestic politics and the formation of international environmental agreements Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 81. 115-131. ISSN 0095-0696

Schlüter, Maja and Tavoni, Alessandro and Levin, Simon (2016) Robustness of norm-driven cooperation in the commons Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283 (1822). 1-9. ISSN 0962-8452

Marchand, Philippe and Carr, Joel A and Dell’Angelo, Jampel and Fader, Marianela and Gephart, Jessica A and Kummu, Matti and Magliocca, Nicholas R and Porkka, Miina and Puma, Michael J and Ratajczak, Zak and Rulli, Maria Cristina and Seekell, David A and Suweis, Samir and Tavoni, Alessandro and D’Odorico, Paolo (2016) Reserves and trade jointly determine exposure to food supply shocks Environmental Research Letters, 11 (9). 095009. ISSN 1748-9326

Fader, Marianela and Rulli, Maria Cristina and Carr, Joel and Angelo, Jampel Dell’ and D'Odorico, Paolo and Gephart, Jessica A and Kummu, Matti and Magliocca, Nicholas and Porkka, Miina and Prell, Christina and Puma, Michael J and Ratajczak, Zak and Seekell, David A and Suweis, Samir and Tavoni, Alessandro (2016) Past and present biophysical redundancy of countries as a buffer to changes in food supply Environmental Research Letters, 11 (5). 1-15. ISSN 1748-9326

2015

Dannenberg, Astrid and Löschel, Andreas and Paolacci, Gabriele and Reif, Christiane and Tavoni, Alessandro (2015) On the provision of public goods with probabilistic and ambiguous thresholds Environmental and Resource Economics, 61 (3). 365-383. ISSN 0924-6460

2014

Tavoni, Alessandro (2014) Evolutionary escape from the climate dilemma Physics of Life Reviews, 11 (4). 587-588. ISSN 1571-0645

Tavoni, Alessandro (2014) Evolutionary escape from the climate dilemma: comment on “climate change governance, cooperation and self-organization” by Pacheco, Vasconcelos and Santos Physics of Life Reviews, 11 (4). 587-588. ISSN 1571-0645

Barrett, Scott and Lenton, Timothy M. and Millner, Antony and Tavoni, Alessandro and Carpenter, Stephen and Anderies, John M. and Chapin, F. Stuart and Crépin, Anne-Sophie and Daily, Gretchen and Ehrlich, Paul and Folke, Carl and Galaz, Victor and Hughes, Terry and Kautsky, Nils and Lambin, Eric F. and Naylor, Rosamond and Nyborg, Karine and Polasky, Stephen and Scheffer, Marten and Wilen, James and Xepapadeas, Anastasios and de Zeeuw, Aart (2014) Climate engineering reconsidered Nature Climate Change, 4 (7). 527-529. ISSN 1758-678X

Tavoni, Alessandro and Levin, Simon (2014) Managing the climate commons at the nexus of ecology, behaviour and economics Nature Climate Change, 4 (12). 1057-1063. ISSN 1758-678X

2013

Tavoni, Alessandro and Dannenberg, Astrid (2013) Coordinating to protect the global climate: inequality and communication in the experimental lab In: Dinar, Ariel and Rapoport, Amnon, (eds.) Analyzing Global Environmental Issues: Theoretical and Experimental Applications and Their Policy Implications. Routledge explorations in environmental economics. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, 11-28. ISBN 9780415627184

Tavoni, Alessandro (2013) Game theory: building up cooperation Nature Climate Change, 3. 782-783. ISSN 1758-678X

Lade, Steven J. and Tavoni, Alessandro and Levin, Simon A. and Schlüter, Maja (2013) Regime shifts in a social-ecological system Theoretical Ecology, 6 (3). 359-372. ISSN 1874-1738

2012

Tavoni, Alessandro and Schlüter, Maja and Levin, Simon (2012) The survival of the conformist: social pressure and renewable resource management Journal of Theoretical Biology, 299. 152-161. ISSN 0022-5193

2011

Tavoni, Alessandro and Schlüter, Maja and Levin, Simon (2011) The survival of the conformist: social pressure and renewable resource management Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment working papers, 35. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London, UK.

Tavoni, Alessandro and Dannenberg, Astrid and Kallis, Giorgos and Löschel, Andreas (2011) Inequality, communication and the avoidance of disastrous climate change Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment working papers, 34. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London, UK.

Tavoni, Alessandro and Dannenberg, Astrid and Kallis, Giorgos and Löschel, Andreas (2011) Inequality, communication, and the avoidance of disastrous climate change in a public goods game. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108 (29). 11825-11829. ISSN 1091-6490

2010

Tavoni, Alessandro and Telesca, Luigi (2010) The wisdom of sustainable communities in the digital era: the case of efficient energy management In: Rakocevic, Veselin and Stanoevska-Slabeva, Katarina and Telesca, Luigi, (eds.) Digital Business: First International Icst Conference, Digibiz 2009, London Uk, June 2009: Revised Selected Papers. Lecture notes of the Institute for computer sciences, social informatics and telecommunications engineering , 21. Springer , Berlin, Germany, 119-129. ISBN 9783642115318

2009

Schlueter, Maja and Tavoni, Alessandro (2009) Water management and equity-driven ostracism – maintenance of cooperation in a CPR subject to variable resource and social conditions. In: USSEE 2009 conference Science and Policy for a Sustainable Future, 31 Jun - 2 Jun 2009, Washington, USA

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I am an Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics. I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from Universita' Ca' Foscari di Venezia (2011). I lead the International Environmental Negotiations Programme at LSE, I am also anAssociate Researcher at FEEM, as well as a member of the Levin Lab at Princeton University and an International Fellow of the Sogang Experimental Economics Laboratory in Korea.

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