Long run demand for energy services: income and price elasticities over 200 years
Data Set on the Consumption of Energy and Energy Services (1300-2008). Fouquet, R. (2014) Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 8(2).
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Publication type: Research articles
Natural capital accounting and climate change
Governments and businesses are beginning to account for natural capital, but must collaborate to promote sustainability, combat climate change and improve decision-making. read more »
The structural shift to green services: A two-sector growth model with public capital and open-access resources
An expansion of economic activities with low impact on ecological resources is a crucial component of the transition to a low-carbon society. “Green” structural change is analysed here through a model with a “progressive” manufacturing sector and a “stagnant” service sector. read more »
Product level embodied carbon flows in bilateral trade
As increasingly complex modelling approaches to quantifying embodied carbon in trade have become popular, the lack of disaggregation has been identified as a key weakness. This paper quantifies embodied carbon in bilateral trade at the product level. read more »
Climate change beliefs and perceptions of weather-related changes in the United Kingdom
Taylor A; Bruine De Bruin W; Dessai S (2014). In: Risk Analysis, 34, pp.1995-2004. doi: 10.1111/risa.12234
Migrating to tackle climate variability and change? Insights from coastal fishing communities in Bangladesh
There is an on-going debate about climate-induced migration but little empirical evidence. We examine how climate-induced migration has impacted vulnerability and adaptation of a coastal fishing community in Bangladesh. We used household surveys, interviews and focus group discussions to compare fishery dependent households who migrated from Kutubdia Island to mainland with those who stayed behind. […]
Towards a new model for communicating climate change
The psychological and social factors that may contribute to and inhibit sustainable change in the context of tourist and traveller behaviour. read more »
Business and development: Changing discourses in the extractive industries
This paper identifies how organisational field dynamics have changed over time within the field of business and development. Using the extractive industries as the empirical setting, development agency policy documents and corporate reports are analysed in order to identify convergence and divergence of discourses and changing institutional logics. The business-development organisational field became structured around […]
National and sub-national integration
Matsumoto T; Nutall C; Bathan G; Gouldson AP; Laloe F; Pathak M; Robert A; Welch D (2014), Green Growth in Practice: Lessons from Country Experiences, GGGI, ECF and CDKN.
‘Neutral’ experts? How input of scientific expertise matters in international environmental negotiations.
Rietig, K. Policy Sciences. 47(2): 141-160. DOI: 10.1007/s11077-013-9188-8.