Giles Atkinson
Centre member
Giles a Reader in Environmental Policy at the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
He is also affiliated with Centre for Social and Environmental Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE)|, at the University of East Anglia, as an Honorary Fellow, and an associate of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment|.
Background
Giles joined the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE in 1999. Prior to this, he was Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE), University College London and University of East Anglia.
Research interests
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Sustainable development;
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Green accounting;
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Environmental valuation and cost-benefit analysis;
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Environmental equity.
Research articles
2011
Atkinson, G., Hamilton, K., Ruta, G., and Van Der Mensbrugghe, D. May 2011. Trade in 'virtual carbon': empirical results and implications for policy. Global Environmental Change, v.21, pp.563-574. External link to full article|
2010
Dietz, S., and Atkinson, G. August 2010. The equity-efficiency trade-off environmental policy: evidence from stated preferences. Land Economics, v.86. External link to full article|
2009
Mourato, S., Atkinson, G., Watson, C., et al. October 2009. Priority research areas for ecosystem services in a changing world. Journal of Applied Ecology, v.46. External link to full article|
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|
2008
Atkinson, G., and Mourato, S. 2008. Environmental cost-benefit analysis. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, v.33, pp. 317-44. Download PDF of article| (313KB)
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