Publications




Environmental cost-benefit analysis

Research article by on 17 Mar 2008

Environmental cost-benefit analysis, or CBA, refers to the economic appraisal of policies and projects that have the deliberate aim of improving the provision of environmental services or actions that … read more »




Sustainable consumption and environmental inequalities

Research article, Working paper by Jouni Paavola on 1 Dec 2007

This article examines the potential for cross-fertilisation between the sustainable consumption scholarship and the environmental justice scholarship. The article first maps the two areas of scholarship, discussing the cognitive, social marketing and social provisioning systems literatures of sustainable consumption and the empirical and conceptual literature on environmental justice. The article then discusses the potential for […]


Do firms adopt lower standards in poorer areas? Corporate social responsibility and environmental justice in the EU and the US

Research article by Andy Gouldson on 6 Dec 2006

Within the context of broader debates on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental justice (EJ), this paper examines three key questions: first, how the standards that corporations adopt at the global scale trickle down into local site-level practices; second, whether levels of corporate environmental performance vary from place to place; and third whether any variations […]



Seeking Justice: International Environmental Governance and Climate Change

Research article by Jouni Paavola on 25 Feb 2005

This article examines social justice aspects of international environmental governance, analysing adaptation to climate change as an example. The article first discusses how international environmental regimes have been examined, suggesting that understanding them as responses to environmental conflicts better highlights their social justice aspects. The article argues that distributive and procedural justice in the society […]