Simon Dietz
Acting Director
Simon Dietz has worked at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) since 2006.
Since 2 May 2011, Dr Simon Dietz has been Acting Director of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP), while Judith Rees acts as Interim Director of LSE.
Simon also holds the following positions:
Background
Previously, Simon worked at the UK Treasury, as an economic adviser on the 'The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change'.
Simon holds a starred first class honours degree in Environmental Science from the University of East Anglia, and Masters and PhD degrees from LSE, specialising in environmental policy and economics.
Research interests
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The economics of climate change, and whether economic analysis can support strong action on climate change;
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Sustainable development;
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Decision-making under uncertainty;
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Equity and social justice, within and between generations.
Media articles
Still wary of Bjørn Lomborg's pronouncements on climate change
|Dr Alex Bowen, Dr Simon Dietz, Dimitri Zenghelis and Bob Ward, The Guardian (letter), 2 September 2010
Ambiguity is another reason to mitigate climate change
|Simon Dietz, Geoffrey Heal and Antony Millner, VoxEU, 1 September 2010
Policy articles
Ranger, N., Millner, A., Dietz, S., Fankhauser, S., Lopez, A., and Ruta, G. September 2010. Adaptation in the UK: a decision-making process. Policy brief, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London and Leeds, UK. Download PDF of brief| (PDF, 3.60MB)
Research articles
2012
Dietz, S., and Asheim, G.B. Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism.
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Published article: May 2012. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, v.63, pp.321-335. External link to full article
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Unpublished article: March 2011. Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London and Leeds, UK. Download PDF of paper (PDF, 829KB)
2011
Dietz, S. December 2011. High impact, low probability? An empirical analysis of risk in the economics of climate change. Climatic Change, v.103, pp.519-541. Download PDF of paper| (385KB)
Millner, A., and Dietz, S. September 2011. Adaptation to climate change and economic growth in developing countries. Working Paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London and Leeds, UK. Download PDF of paper| (PDF, 1.25MB)
Walker, O., and Dietz, S. September 2011. A representation result for choice under conscious unawareness. Working Paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London and Leeds, UK. Download PDF of paper| (PDF, 882KB)
Dietz, S. August 2011. From efficiency to justice: utility as the informational basis of climate change strategies, and some alternatives. The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society (John Dryzek, Richard B. Norgaard and David Schlosberg [eds.]. Oxford University Press, Oxford. External link to book details|
Dietz, S. July 2011. The treatment of risk and uncertainty in the US Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis. Working Paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London and Leeds, UK. Download PDF of paper| (PDF, 332KB)
Dietz, S. March 2011. The Stern Review. The Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather (Stephen H. Schneider [ed.]), second edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford. External link to book details|
Dietz, S., Michie, J., and Oughton, C. February 2011. The Political Economy of the Environment: an interdisciplinary approach (Jonathan Michie and Christine Oughton [eds.]). Routledge, Abingdon. External link to book details|
Dietz, S., and Morton, A. January 2011. Strategic appraisal of environmental risks: a contrast between the UK's Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change and its Committee on Radioactive Waste Management. Risk Analysis, v.31, pp.129-142. External link to full article|
2010
Dietz, S., and Fankhauser, S. Autumn 2010. Environmental prices, uncertainty and learning. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, v.26 (2), 270-284. External link to full article|
Dietz, S., Millner, A., and Heal, G. Ambiguity and climate policy. August 2010. Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London and Leeds, UK. Download PDF of paper |(PDF, 1.18MB)
Dietz, S., Millner, A., and Heal, G. . August 2010. Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London and Leeds, UK. (PDF, 1.18MB)
Dietz, S., and Atkinson, G. August 2010. The equity-efficiency trade-off in environmental policy: evidence from stated preferences. Land Economics, v.86, p. 423-443. External link to full article |
Dietz, S., and Hepburn, C. March 2010. On non-marginal cost-benefit analysis. Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London and Leeds, UK. Download PDF of paper |(PDF, 1.37MB)
2009
Dietz, S. From efficiency to justice: utility as the informational basis of climate change strategies, and some alternatives. December 2009. Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London and Leeds, UK. Download PDF of paper |(PDF, 417KB)
Dietz, S., and Fankhauser, S. November 2009. Environmental prices, uncertainty and learning. Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London and Leeds, UK. Download PDF of paper| (PDF, 418KB)
Dietz, S. September 2009. High impact, low probability? An empirical analysis of risk in the economics of climate change. Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London and Leeds, UK. Download PDF of paper |(PDF, 504KB)
Dietz, S., and Maddison, D.J. July 2009. New frontiers in the economics of climate change. Environmental and Resource Economics, v.43. External link to full article|
Dietz, S., and Morton, A. July 2009. Strategic appraisal of environmental risks: a contrast between the UK's 'Stern Review on The Economics of Climate Change' and its Committee on Radioactive Waste Management. Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London and Leeds, UK. Download PDF of paper |(PDF, 440KB)
Atkinson, G., Dietz, S., Helgeson, J., Hepburn, C. and Sælen H. June 2009. Siblings, not triplets: social preferences for risk, inequality and time in discounting climate change. Economics: the open-access, open-assessment e-journal, v.3. External link to full article|
Dietz, S., and Stern, N. Winter 2009. On the timing of greenhouse gas emissions reductions: a final rejoinder to the symposium on 'The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review and its Critics'. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, v.26. External link to full article |(PDF, 48.6KB)
Dietz, S., and Neumayer, E. January 2009. Economics and the governance of sustainable development. Governing Sustainability: essays in honour of Tim O'Riordan [W. Neil Adger and Andrew Jordan (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Download PDF of book chapter| (PDF, 104KB)
Dietz, S., Hepburn, C., and Stern, N. 2009. Economics, ethics and climate change. Arguments for a Better World: essays in honour of Amartya Sen (Volume 2: society, institutions and development) [Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanbur (eds.)]. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Download PDF of book chapter| (PDF, 224KB)
2008
Dietz, S., and Stern, N. April 2008. Why economic analysis supports strong action on climate change: a response to the Stern Review's critics. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, v.2, p. 94-113. External link to full article |
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