Research article by Teevrat Garg on 26 Jul 2016
A sound understanding of poverty traps – defined as poverty that is self-reinforcing due to the poor’s equilibrium behaviors—and their underlying mechanisms is fundamentally important to the development of … read more »
Research article by Declan Conway on 16 Jul 2016
There are strong interdependencies between water use in agriculture and energy consumption as water saving technologies can require increased pumping and pressurizing. The Chinese Government includes water efficiency improvement … read more »
Research article by Lindsay Stringer, Andy Dougill, Uche Okpara on 6 Jul 2016
Climate variability is amongst an array of threats facing agricultural livelihoods, with its effects unevenly distributed. With resource conflict being increasingly recognised as one significant outcome of climate variability and change, understanding the underlying drivers that shape differential vulnerabilities in areas that are double-exposed to climate and conflict has great significance. Climate change vulnerability frameworks […]
Research article by Andy Dougill, Philip Antwi-Agyei, Claire Quinn, Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe, Richard Lamboll, Delali Benjamin Komla Dovie, Samuel Godfried Kwasi Adiku on 16 Jun 2016
Smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are confronted with climatic and non-climatic stressors. Research attention has focused on climatic stressors, such as rainfall variability, with few empirical studies exploring non-climatic stressors and how these interact with climatic stressors at multiple scales to affect food security and livelihoods. This focus on climatic factors restricts understanding of the […]
Research article by Swenja Surminski on 14 Jun 2016
Thoughts on the introduction of flood re in the United Kingdom. read more »
Working paper by Shaikh Eskander, Edward barbier on 12 Jun 2016
We examine the effects of natural disaster exposure on agricultural households who simultaneously make rent-in and rent-out decisions in the land rental market. Our econometric approach accounts for the effects … read more »
Working paper by Florence Crick, Katie Jenkins, Swenja Surminski on 9 Jun 2016
Multisectoral partnerships are increasingly being mentioned as a mechanism to deliver and improve disaster risk management. Yet, partnerships are not a panacea and more research is required to understand the … read more »
Working paper by Bruno Lanz, Simon Dietz, Tim Swanson on 3 Jun 2016
We study how stochasticity in the evolution of agricultural productivity interacts with economic and population growth, and the associated demand for food. We use a two-sector Schumpeterian model of growth, … read more »
Research article by Andy Gouldson on 1 Jun 2016
It is often held that the UK has been something of a leader in its response to climate change, and that the USA has been more of a laggard. Whilst much of this debate relates to government policy, in this paper we consider whether this is true when it comes to corporate action on climate […]
Research article by David Castells-Quintana, Maria del Pilar Lopez-Uribe, Tom McDermott on 20 May 2016
The links among climate change, economic growth and economic development have gained increasing attention over recent years in both the academic and policy literature. However, most of the existing literature … read more »
