Richard Perkins
Centre member
Richard is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
He is also an associate of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment|.
Background
Richard joined LSE 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.
Research interests
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Economic globalisation and environmental change;
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Environmental policy implementation and compliance;
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Innovation diffusion and convergence;
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Corporate environmentalism;
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Geopolitics of 'ethical' foreign policy.
Research articles
2012
Perkins, R., and Neumayer, E. Do recipient country characteristics affect international spillovers of CO2-efficiency via trade and foreign direct investment? Climatic Change. Forthcoming.
Perkins, R., and Neumayer, E. Does the "California effect" operate across borders? Trading- and investing-up in automobile emission standards. Journal of European Public Policy. Forthcoming.
2011
Perkins, R., and Neumayer, E. Transnational spatial dependencies in the geography of non-resident patent filings. Journal of Economic Geography, 2011, v.11, pp.37-60. External link to full article|
Perkins, R., and Neumayer, E. February 2011. Is the internet really new after all? The determinants of telecommunications diffusion in historical perspective. The Professional Geographer, v.63, pp.55-72. External link to full article|
2010
Perkins, R. 2010. The internationalisation of managerial environmentalism: globalisation, diffusion and territorialisation. Geography Compass, v.4, pp.1069-1083. External link to full article|
Perkins, R., and Neumayer, E. 2010. The organized hypocrisy of ethical foreign policy: Human rights, democracy and Western arms sales. Geoforum, v.41, pp.247-256. External link to full article|
Perkins, R., and Neumayer, E. Geographic variations in the early diffusion of corporate voluntary standards: comparing ISO14001 and the Global Compact. 2010. Environment and Planning A, v.42, pp.347-365. External link to full article|
2009
Perkins, R., and Neumayer, E. September 2009. How do domestic attributes affect international spillovers of CO2-efficiency? Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, Leeds and London, UK. Download PDF of paper| (334KB)
Perkins, R., and Neumayer, E. August 2009. Transnational linkages and the spillover of environment-efficiency into developing countries. Global Environmental Change, v.19, p.375-383. External link to full article|
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